Passageways evolve out of topography and out of the general location of the area with reference to destinations. For about seventy miles the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania extends southwestward from the Susquehanna River across from Harrisburg to the Potomac River in Maryland. The Valley is bounded in the southeast by South Mountain and on the northwest by Blue Mountain. The eastern two-thirds of the Valley is drained eastward by the widely meandering Conodoguinet Creek, which from Roxbury Gap traverses the northern side of the Valley for a distance of about 100 miles in an air distance of forty-three miles.
Most people are unaware of the unique origin of the Borough of Newville, Cumberland County. Early towns usually grew up around springs, taverns or industries. Newville was planned by a church and laid out on church property.
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.