On the afternoon of Friday July 31, 1908, residents on East South Street in Carlisle heard a loud noise when a portion of the historic Cloyd house collapsed and practically demolished his neighbor’s summer kitchen.
When it was officially opened ceremoniously for traffic on January 16, 1839, the Susquehanna River bridge, also referred to as the Cumberland Valley Railroad Bridge, was intended to connect the Cumberland Valley with the Harrisburg and Lancaster Railroad.
Interview with Charlie Stringfellow, Rick Hrip, Bob Marek, and Mark Fishkin focusing on the golf career of Stringfellow and the Carlisle Country Club.
Interview of Sylvia A. Waters for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Waters discusses the history of her families connection to Cumberland County, PA including her father's family in Newville. Waters then talks about growing up on B Street in Carlisle and attending the old Wilson and Lamberton Schools.
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Interview of Wilson O'Donnell for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. O'Donnell discusses his role as the first professional curator of the Cumberland County Historical Society including the exhibits he curated.
Interview of Glenn Kurzenknabe for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Memory Bank. Glenn discusses his time spent in the quartz crystal industry in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania including as a salesman at Greenray Industries and VP of Sales at Piezo Crystal Company.
Interview of Barbara Lillich for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Lillich discusses growing up in Cumberland County, PA, her family's relationship with Frank Masland, and meeting her husband David.
Indentured servants were men and women who agreed to work for a master without pay for a specified number of years, usually in return for having their passages to America paid. This 1775 advertisement in Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Gazette announced that the ship Hawke had just arrived from London and was lying off the Market Street wharf with a shipment of “a few likely healthy servants” of many different trades “whose times are to be disposed of.”
The purpose of this narrative is to document, based on the available evidence, the approximate location of entrenchments said to have been constructed at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, during the French and Indian War.
As this is written in 2022, two former carpet mills located at Louther and Spring Garden Streets in Carlisle, are collectively known as the Minerva Mills. The larger mill to the west was built by E. C.