Carlisle

Jack Larson

Interview of Jack Larson for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Larson discusses how he came to be a pastor in the Presbyterian Church including his eventual role as the Music Director and Associate Pastor of Second Presbyterian Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Leaving the Cumberland Valley: Patterns of Migration from 1750 until 1890

After decades of introducing Dickinson students to the fascination of the history of Carlisle and Cumberland County, four years ago I at last had the opportunity to explore the topic myself, first in a book on leisure in the nineteenth century, and then, after retirement, on the important but ignored phenomenon of migration out of the Cumberland Valley.

Lenore Embick Flower

As a genealogist, Lenore Embick Flower was very much aware of her ancestry. It may be proper, therefore, to begin with a mention of her immediate ancestors: John Dunbar and Agnes Waugh Greason Dunbar. A tombstone marks their grave at Carlisle's First Presbyterian Church-Meeting House Springs Cemetery. On the reverse side of the headstone are the names of six of their children who died of diphtheria during the 1850s.

The Letter

Alexandria, [District of Columbia], 25 February 1810. Thomas Cruse sat down, opened his desk, took out a clean sheet of paper, dipped his pen in the bottle of ink and wrote “Dear Sir.” He was writing to his brother-in-law, Judge James Hamilton of Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Lewis the Robber

Photo of eighteen young people sitting and standing around Lewis Cave at Doubling Gap, Pa.

From a likely fictional confession written a day before his death, Pennsylvania’s Robin Hood tells the story of David Lewis, better known as Lewis the Robber from his birth on Hanover Street in Carlisle on March 4, 1790 to his capture and eventual death in jail in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania on July

Barbara Lillich

Interview of Barbara Lillich for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Lillich discusses growing up in Cumberland County, PA, her family's relationship with Frank Masland, and meeting her husband David.

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