Interview of Robert W. Black for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library an initiative of the Cumberland County Historical Society. Black discusses growing up on a farm in Gardners, Pennsylvania during the Great Depression.
Henry Brown was a Civil War veteran buried in Mount Holly Colored Cemetery in Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Brown was born in 1844 and lived in South Middleton County, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania with his family according to the “1860 United States Federal Census.”[
On Saturday, March 30, 1822, Gilson Craighead, a prosperous South Middleton Township farmer and mill owner, went to Carlisle for the day with his son Major James. They would both be dead within a week.
Thomas Craighead’s slave Venus: Sister of the first published American Negro poet Phillis Wheatley. T.C. was Thomas Craighead (1789-1865) the son of John Craighead and his wife Jane Lamb. The “old Thomas Craighead” he refers to in his letter was his grandfather who died in 1807. In 1845, T.C. also contributed a history of incidents relating to his family that was published in I.D. Rupp’s History of Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry Counties…. p. 440-444.
Cumberland County place names under the following lists: named after the founder or an early settler, geographical/geological features, and miscellaneous.
The Cumberland County Register of Historic Places was organized by the Cumberland County Historical Society (CCHS) to recognize places of local historic significance that may not qualify for placement on the National Register of Historic Places.
This is a list of the seventy-four Cumberland County, Pennsylvania servicemen who sacrificed their lives in service to their country during World War I. The list is compiled from the book Service records: Cumberland County in the World War 1917-1918 printed in 1935 by the Cumberland Cou
Interview of Dolly Fair for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Fair discusses growing up in Mount Holly Springs and South Middleton Township as her love of roller skating.
Interview of Jeff Gibelius for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Gibelius discusses how he came to be the lead pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church including his early life in Ballston Lake, New York and how the Church has changed over the years.
Interview of Ronald Hamilton of the Union Fire Company by Randy Watts on March 31, 2015. The interview focuses on the Union Fire Company in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as well as fire fighting in general.