Pine Grove Furnace

The Best Discovery of Camp Michaux: A Civilian Conservation Corps Boy Remembers Pine Grove Furnace

Frank Stasky at Pine Grove Furnace CCC Camp c.1941.

For many of us who love exploring Camp Michaux, it is a marriage of insatiable curiosity with a rich and deserving history. to those who seek with tenacity and have a bit of luck on their side, Camp Michaux slowly reveals its secrets. Each time I return, I’m filled with child-like anticipation and hope.

Civil War Troop Movements at Pine Grove Furnace

In the summer of 1863, the Cumberland Valley was awash in fear and excitement as General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia came northward, culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Much has been written since then, 'indeed perhaps too much- by one estimate more than 5000 books and articles have been written about the Gettysburg Campaign of June and July 1863.

David Faller

Interview of David Faller for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library of the Cumberland County Historical Society and the St. Patrick's Church of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. David discusses growing up in Carlisle and attend Saint Patrick's School and Church as well as coming back to both Carlisle, PA and St. Patrick's as an adult.

A First Sergeant's Memories of Camp Michaux: The Lost Collection of The Pine Grove Furnace Prisoner of War Camp

I have never forgotten my first solitary walk through Camp Michaux. The sun was setting and visitors had gone. I explored in silence, hearing only a gentle breeze create an eerie creaking in the trees that made me strain my ear as if listening for voices of the past.

Iron Workers in Cumberland County

The factors that gave rise to the iron industry in Pennsylvania are detailed in many studies of early settlement and industrial progress. Both William A. Sullivan in his Industrial Worker in Pennsylvania and Arthur Bining's Pennsylvania Iron Manufacture in the Eighteenth Century describe the rich, natural resources of the early colony and the influx of wage earners from the Old World as the perfect setting for industrial growth and development.

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

Cassie Line

Screenshot from Cassie Line's Interview

Interview of Cassie Line for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Line discusses her early life growing up at Greystone and Pomfret Street as well as the many friends and family she has known including stories of her husband Jim Line.

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