Carlisle

A Traveller in the County, 1809

Joshua Gilpin, a well-to-do merchant, manufacturer, and capitalist of Philadelphia and Delaware, travelled through Cumberland County from Chambersburg to Harrisburg in 1809 on his way home from a business and pleasure trip to western Pennsylvania. As was his custom on journeys of this kind, he made a record of observations and events. Although not notably different in content from those of other travellers on the same road at the same time, its relevant portion is nonetheless worth reprinting as a source of information about the county at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

A Traveller in the County, 1840

James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), an English journalist, lecturer, reformer, and sometime Member of Parliament, was a tireless traveler and the author of books on observations and experiences in the Middle East, Europe, and America. He spent four years in the United States, producing a total of eight stout volumes on the Northern or Free States (3v., 1841), the Slaves States (2v., 1842), and the Eastern and Western States (3 v., 1842).

A Traveller in the County: 1810

Cumberland County and Valley before the 1830s was one of the principal avenues to the American West. A steady procession of naturalists, farmers with their families and flocks, European reporters on American democracy, investors and speculators in land, fortune hunters and ne'er-do-wells came up from Philadelphia, crossed the Susquehanna, and, many of them, passed through Carlisle and Shippensburg over the mountains to Bedford, Pittsburgh, and the fertile lands of Ohio.

Gayle and Denver Tuckey

Interview of Gayle and Denver Tuckey for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. The Tuckey's discuss growing up in Summerdale and Enola in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania as well as their careers. Denver Tuckey recounts starting work for Frank Black before eventually buying the company that would become Tuckey Mechanical Services.

Richard Turner

According to the “U.S. Find a Grave Index, 1600s to Current for Richard Turner,” Turner was born in 1840 in Virginia.1 However, legal documents filed on his behalf through his life, however, imply birth years of a range from 1830 to 1840. Turner himself gives his birthplace as Woodstock; Shenandoah Valley, VA but census records for Shenandoah County are not available for either 1830 or 1840 so his age is unknown.2 This is due to speculation that Turner was likely a slave born in Virginia but sold south to a large and prosperous plantation in Louisiana.

28th “Iron” Division

During the nation’s history, many military units have been called up for service. Each has fought in one, or several conflicts concerning the United States. But the longest serving unit is the 28th Infantry Division, otherwise known as the Iron Division.

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