A roller skating craze swept the country in the 1880s. Opinions were divided on whether roller skating rinks provided the public with “healthful amusement” or were “pits of perdition” as some preachers claimed.1 Regardless, roller skating was so popular that rinks were built in Carlisle, Mechanicsburg, Mt. Holly and Shippensburg.
In April 1839, Sandel Arnold applied to the authorities in Wurttemberg, Germany to immigrate to America.[1] Two years later, he was peddling goods out of his wagon to the residents of Cumberland County. Sandel Arnold was born in 1790 in Jebenhausen in the Goppingen District of (Württemberg) Germany.
While it may not be an historian's job to "praise famous men," it is his job to tell of men and women, famous or less so, and remember that they were human beings with a human capacity for the remarkable. Henry Heisey Brubaker—in the formal custom of the day, he always styled himself "H. H. Brubaker"—was an imposing figure in the Brethren in Christ Church during the middle years of the twentieth century.
Merri Lou Schaumann, ed., Pictorial History: Shippensburg Area, Big Spring Area, Cm-lisle Area, Mechanicsburg Area and West Shore Area (Carlisle: Cumberland County 250'" Anniversary Committee, 2000). 5 volumes, 96 pp. each. Photographs, maps. $16.95 each volume, $75.00 set.
William Bridges fought in Company G of the 22nd U.S.C.T. He was born around 1837. While he was married before he joined the military, there is no record of his wedding or wife, and nothing else is known about his life before joining the U.S.C.T. He enlisted as a private on December 30, 1863, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was mustered out on the same date. According to his military records he was born in Lancaster or Carlisle, he was five feet and seven inches tall, and had a light copper complexion, with brown eyes and hair. He was about 26 years old at the time.
I shall not call this an infant school, because I do not intend the children to be schooled, but to be allowed under the gentlest treatment to develop freely. -Friedrick Frobell
Charles Conn served in Company E of the 127th U.S.C.T. He was born in West Virginia in 1828, and he married his wife, Mary, in 1855, but other details of his life before the military are unknown.1 He enlisted on August 29, 1864, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was discharged on September 9, 1865, due to the end of the war. Details about his rank and time in service are unknown.
Cumberland County place names under the following lists: named after the founder or an early settler, geographical/geological features, and miscellaneous.
The Cumberland County Register of Historic Places was organized by the Cumberland County Historical Society (CCHS) to recognize places of local historic significance that may not qualify for placement on the National Register of Historic Places.
The following list of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania servicemen who died in Vietnam appears in alphabetical order and was compiled from official and non-official sources.