Jack Griffith
Interview of Jack Griffith for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Griffith discusses growing up in Carlisle, PA attending St. Patrick's Church and School and the role of the Catholic Church on his life.
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Lee and Connie Goodman
Lee and Connie Goodman interview for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. The Goodmans discuss the role their Catholic Faith has played in their lives as well as the specific influence of St. Patricks Church in Carlisle, PA.
The McKeehan’s Bound and Gagged by Four Masked Men
It was bitter cold on the evening of January 20, 1879. Farmer George McKeehan and his elderly sisters were sitting in the kitchen keeping warm when four masked men wielding clubs burst into the house and threatened to harm them if they made any noise.
Jesse James Killer in Carlisle for Two Nights
To-Night! To-Night!
“The Ford Brothers, exterminators of Jesse James, the noted outlaw chief and his band of desperadoes, are with the Ramblers’ Comedy company. The manager says that nothing will be done to offend the most fastidious.”
Ellie Sweet
Interview of Ellie Sweet for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Sweet talks about her life and the influence of St. Patricks Church.
Relics: Lost and Found
Relics are fragments or objects that have survived from the past, and in the case of relics found in Cumberland County, they are gold and silver coins, buttons, silver spoons, and cannonballs.
The Old Nail Factory on North Bedford Street, Carlisle, PA
In the 1780s, John Duncan and Lewis Foulk both operated nail factories in Carlisle. Cask nails and sprigs of any size, flooring brads, shingle nails, and Double Tens Lathing were all hand wrought at their factories. Duncan advertised that he sought "a few good nailors” and offered them "generous wages. Lewis Foulk also advertised that he wanted a number of nailors who would be paid “generous wages,” and he also wanted a “bred [sic] nailor.”
St. Patrick’s Day Celebrated at a Carlisle tavern in 1807
The old Eagle and Harp tavern, built in 1803 for Charles McManus, is still standing in Carlisle at 131 North East Street. It was there on Tuesday, March 17, 1807, that “a few of the sons of St. Patrick” met to celebrate the patron of Ireland.
Frycklund’s Miniature Golf Course
Miniature golf courses sprang up all over the United States in the late 1920s with the invention of a kind of artificial turf. Rumors spread during the spring and summer of 1930 that Carlisle was soon to have a miniature golf course.
The “Carlisle Coffee Car” 10 North Pitt Street
Although the Gulf Gas Station in this 1951 photo is the dominant feature of the picture, if you look to the right of the back of the station, you can see several cars parked by a restaurant. That restaurant, now called Pitt Street Station, is the latest eatery on that spot since the first one opened in 1929.