Newville
Apprentice Rattlesnake Wrangler Wanted
Charles A. Henneberger was the proprietor of the Eagle Hotel on Main and High streets in Newville. A collector of taxidermy, among his specimens of birds and beasts were a wild-cat and a snow-white squirrel from the North Mountain. He also collected reptiles.
Van Baker of Newville: Ex-slave
Known in town as “Bossy” Baker, Van Baker was born a slave in Virginia about the year 1820. When The Star and Enterprise newspaper reported that Mr.
19th Century African-American Barbers & Hairdressers of Carlisle
In June 1847, William Webb advertised in the Carlisle Herald that he had just returned from the city “with a large and very superior lot of Metallic wigs, three quarter wigs, ladies plain Frizettes or front braids; also a small assortment of Ladies curls.” He also had “hair, tooth, nail
Big Spring Creek and the Village of Springfield
Big Spring Creek is a five-mile-long tributary of Conodoguinet Creek in Cumberland County. It is formed by the fifth largest spring in Pennsylvania with a median flow of 18 million gallons a day. The headwaters are near U.S.
Thomas Brannan
Thomas Brannan served in Company H of the 22nd U.S.C.T. He was born in Shenandoah, Virginia, around 1845 or 1848. He enlisted by Captain Eyster, as a private in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on December 28, 1863. According to his company descriptive book, he was eighteen years old, 5 feet and 7 inches tall, with black hair, eyes, and complexion, and was working as a farmer at the time.
Joan Brehm
Interview of Joan Brehm for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Brehm discusses growing up in Newville, Pennsylvania as well as its history along with being a School Librarian in the Northern School District in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania.
Cereus Bloom Viewing: A Newsworthy Event
An item in the November 23, 1866 issue of the Carlisle Weekly Herald read “Luxury Has Its Great Staples. Phalon’s ‘Night Blooming Cereus’ is one of them. It is as salable as bread-as current as coin. Fashionable society endorses it. The people approve it.
Primitive Passageways to Future Newville Correction
Dear Editor, A friend from Mechanicsburg, PA, shared his Summer 1989 issue of your magazine with me because he knew of my interest in Scottish Dissenting Presbyterianism.
Cumberland County Place Names
Cumberland County place names under the following lists: named after the founder or an early settler, geographical/geological features, and miscellaneous.