Carlisle

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 “

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Carlisle Public Schools: Segregation to Integration

Students of the Colored Select School at Saint Patricks

A pamphlet entitled “Milestones of Carlisle Schools 1836-1986” was issued for the sesquicentennial of the school district's founding. It includes the following information:

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Carlisle's Black Rock

In 1818, Jacob Baughman of Carlisle drew a map of Carlisle noting the locations of churches, graveyards, public buildings, still houses, tanneries, and the names by which each of the borough’s street corners were known.¹ His map shows “Black Rock” on the north west corner of Main and W

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Carlisle’s Ice Skating Park: 1870s

Ice skating parks were very popular in the United States from the 1860s to the 1890s. They were not just places to skate, but places to socialize during the dark days of winter. In 1870, Mrs.

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Carlisle’s Irvine Row - The 19th Century

Scan of undated map, made by Carlisle printers Holcomb and Tizzard c. 1823, shows how all the lots facing the square were shortened to make room for the new alleys

Fronting on Church Avenue, adjoining St. John’s Episcopal Church on the Square, the eight brick houses that make up Carlisle’s Irvine Row are the rare survivors of an intact nineteenth-century streetscape. They stand on Lot #171 in the original plan of Carlisle.

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Carlisle’s Penrose Sisters Lead Area Anti-Suffrage Movement

While people are familiar with the Suffragist movement of the 19^th and early 20^th centuries that sought to gain equal rights for women, it is hard for us today to imagine that there were women who fought against this.

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Andrew Carothers: A Life Well Lived

Andrew Carothers’ was a native of Cumberland County. He was born in 1778 in Silver Spring Township to John and Mary Carothers. His father, John Carothers, served as a County Lieutenant during the Revolutionary War.

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