Carlisle Architecture
This paper developed from the research done before, during, and after the Cumberland County Historic Resource Survey completed its study of Carlisle architecture.
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Carlisle Barracks-1854-1855: From the Letters of Lt. Thomas W. Sweeny, 2nd Infantry
In July 1855, six companies from the 2nd Infantry rook possession of an old fur trading post on the banks of the Upper Missouri River and transformed it into a base of operations against the Sioux. But before setting out on this assignment, the officers and men of this regiment spent almost a year and a half at Carlisle Barracks filling their ranks, drilling, and preparing for service on the prairie. Among the officers in this contingent was 34-year-old Lieutenant Thomas William Sweeny.
The Carlisle Carriage Factory
The years from 1850 to 1910 were the height of the carriage era in the United States.
Carlisle Celebrates Bastille Day
The French Revolution was celebrated in Carlisle on July 14, 1792. The following description of the event appeared in the July 18 issue of The Carlisle Gazette and the Western Repository of Knowledge.
The “Carlisle Coffee Car” 10 North Pitt Street
Although the Gulf Gas Station in this 1951 photo is the dominant feature of the picture, if you look to the right of the back of the station, you can see several cars parked by a restaurant. That restaurant, now called Pitt Street Station, is the latest eatery on that spot since the first one opened in 1929.
The Carlisle Deluge, 1779
On the night of August 19, 1779, there occurred on the south side of the North Mountain about ten miles northwest of Carlisle a geological phenomenon that eventually drew the attention of the astronomer David Rittenhouse, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, the Secretary of War, and the president of Harvard College, and was described both in private letters among these and other men and also in the published proceedings of the second oldest learned society in the United States.
The Carlisle Deluge, 1779, Revisited
We report here that evidence for the 1779 Carlisle Deluge still exists. In the Summer, 1996 issue of Cumberland County History, Whitfield J. Bell described what he called the Carlisle Deluge. Bell used primary sources, mainly a letter from David Rittenhouse to Benjamin Franklin, to describe how, on the night of August 19, 1779, a thunderstorm with copious rain opened a gash on the south side of North (Blue) Mountain east of Flat Rock and northwest of the present Bloserville. Rocks and trees were carried down the mountain.
Carlisle Hospital
For nearly a century, the Carlisle Hospital complex occupied a block of land in the southwest section of Carlisle. The limestone, landmark building was razed in 2007 following a decision by the hospital board to sell the hospital to Health Management Associates, Inc.
Carlisle Industrial Indian School: Pride or Prejudice
Oral History project by Alan Schulze, Monica Wilson, Troy Ehrensberger, and James Cowden of Shippensburg University. Edited by Troy Ehrensberger and narrated by Alan Schulze.
Carlisle man’s painting exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art
In 1932, New York’s Museum of Modern Art held an exhibit titled “American Folk Art of the Common Man in America 1750-1900.” One of the paintings in the exhibit was titled “