Shippensburg Public Library

The Transformation of the Shippensburg Public Library Building

The oldest town in the Cumberland Valley, straddling the border between Franklin and Cumberland counties in the rolling foothill system of the Appalachian Mountains of south central Pennsylvania, the Borough of Shippensburg is laid out in a grid pattern. The town's major east-west thoroughfare is King Street, an old Indian path, and along this two-lane road, also designated U.S. Route 11, has long lain much of its commercial district.