| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — 1753 Carlisle Indian Conference — Walking Tour Stop 3 |
| | The Native American tribes of Pennsylvania and Ohio, who had long traded with the English, asked for Pennsylvania's help to prevent French incursions and trade abuses in the Ohio territory. The Pennsylvania Assembly voted to give aid to the tribes and they agreed to meet in Carlisle to discuss affairs.
The Conference was held on the Square in Carlisle during the first week of October, 1753. Chiefs of the Six Nations and their allies the Delaware, Shawnee, Twightwee and Owendot met with . . . — Map (db m15793) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — 54th & 55th Massachusetts Infantry |
| | U.S. Colored Troops, 54th & 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments and other Colored Civil War Soldiers buried here.
[List of Veterans]
World War I
[List of Veterans] — Map (db m53629) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — 25 — Andre & Despard House |
| | Site of house where Major Andre and Lieutenant Despard were held prisoners in 1776. Andre was executed as a spy in 1780. Despard was executed for high treason in 1803. — Map (db m34698) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Beta Pi Chapter of Kappa Sigma Fraternity |
| |
On this site, 277 W. Louther Street, from 1932 to 1963 lived the Brothers of Beta Pi Chapter of Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
Presented by the chapter's Alumni Association on
June 7, 2003
in honor of the chapter's 100th Anniversary
at Dickinson College, 1902-2002. — Map (db m53633) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Bethel A.M.E. Church |
| | Among the earliest (c.1820) African American congregations located west of the Susquehanna River. The site of Underground Railroad activity. Abolitionists John Peck and John B. Vashon were members. A.M.E. national Bishops Daniel Payne and Wills Nazrey were associated with the church. — Map (db m40952) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Blaine House |
| | Home of Gen. Ephraim Blaine, Commissary General of Revolutionary Army, stood on this site. George Washington was a guest here, Oct. 4-11, 1794, while mustering an armed force to quell Whiskey Rebellion in Western Pennsylvania. — Map (db m15855) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Brigadier General William Thompson — 1736 - 1781 |
| | The First Colonel of the U.S. Army — Map (db m16092) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Carlisle |
| | Founded in 1751 as the seat of Cumberland County. Hisoric old frontier town. Supplied a contingent for the first regiment of the Continental Army in 1775. March against the Whiskey Rebels began here, 1794. — Map (db m16074) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Carlisle |
| | Founded in 1751 as the seat of Cumberland County. Historic old frontier town. Supplied a contingent for the first regiment of the Continental Army in 1775. March against the Whiskey Rebels began here, 1794. — Map (db m30318) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Carlisle |
| | Founded in 1751 as the seat of Cumberland County. Historic old frontier town. Supplied a contingent for the first regiment of the Continental Army in 1775. March against the Whiskey Rebels began here, 1794. — Map (db m35806) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Carlisle Barracks |
| | Second oldest army post in U.S. A powder magazine built by Hessian prisoners, 1777, survives. Burned by Confederates, July 1, 1863. Indian School, 1879-1918. Army Medical Field Service School, 1920-1946. — Map (db m16073) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — 8 — Carlisle Court House |
| | Erected 1766
Burned March 24, 1845
Rebuilt 1845-1846
Contained the early
“Apprentices’ Library” — Map (db m15859) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Carlisle First World War Memorial |
| | Erected by Carlisle Civic Club
in memory of the men who lost
their lives in the First World War
1917 - 1918
——————————————
Jacob M. Bonner •
Abram DeWalt •
John G. Gutshall •
Samuel J. Harris •
Wilson E. Hench •
Charles J. Hoffsass •
Charles S. Kell •
Paul W. Kelley •
Harvey E. Kelly •
James E. Lau •
Paul D. Leinbach •
Orlando Newcomer •
Charles A. Rynard •
James Stackfield • . . . — Map (db m16084) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Carlisle Fort |
| | First fort authorized by Pennsylvania. Laid out by Gov. Morris, July, 1755, “in the middle of this town,” on news of Braddock's defeat. Col. John Armstrong's headquarters till 1758. Called “Fort Lowther” by some later writers. — Map (db m16075) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — 18 — Carlisle Jail |
| | Replica of Norman Castle, Carlisle, England. Erected 1754. Enlarged 1790. Rebuilt 1854. — Map (db m35315) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Carlisle Old Graveyard Revolutionary War Soldiers |
| | Erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in grateful appreciation of the services of these soldiers of the Revolutionary War who lie buried here.
Located and verified by The Cumberland County County Chapter of the D.A.R. — Map (db m16093) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Carlisle Public Square |
| | Before the erection of Cumberland County - 1750 - this site was the intersection of the Indian trail leading from mountain to mountain across Groghan's Gap westward.
With the laying out of Carlisle in 1751 the square became the center of the town's activities. Some events connected with its first half century of existence are shown herewith.
First courts held here July 1751.
First Presbyterian congregation organized Meeting House Springs 1734 - Episcopal congregation, organized, . . . — Map (db m15866) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Carlisle's 250th Anniversary Mural |
| | 1. Cumberland County, established in 1750, lost its first courthouse to fire in 1845. This Courthouse was built in 1846 and still bears the scars of a Civil War shelling on July 1, 1863.
2. Carlisle's long tradition of education began early, with private academies flourishing by 1773. In 1837, Carlisle established Pennsylvania's first public high school. Dickinson College was chartered in 1783, followed by the Dickinson School of Law in 1836. Other local schools included Carlisle . . . — Map (db m16094) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Centenary Building — Walking Tour Stop 14 |
| | In 1827, a German Reformed congregation built a stone church at this location. At the time, a Methodist congregation was housed in a church on Church Alley. The location was not ideal due to boisterous behavior in the alley during church services and “offensive” odors coming from nearby stables. In 1833, the Methodist congregation decided to find a more suitable building and purchased the stone church. In addition to regular church services, the church was used for the . . . — Map (db m16080) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Charles Albert "Chief" Bender — (1884-1954) |
| | One of baseball's great pitchers. Bender played for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1903-14, helping them to win 5 pennants and 3 world championships. After winning 212 games over 16 seasons and becoming one of the first World Series stars, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954. His mother was one-half Chippewa, and he attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School on this site from 1898-1901. — Map (db m30286) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — China Burma India Veteran's Memorial — December 1941 - March 1946 |
| | Dedicated in honor of those men and women who served their country in the pursuit of freedom for all mankind — Map (db m15858) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — 9 — Col. Robert Magaw |
| | Robert Magaw, one of Carlisle's principal lawyers prior to the Revolution, lived here. Magaw joined Col. William Thompson's regiment in June 1775 as a Major. After service in Boston in 1776 he was promoted to Colonel in the 5th PA Battalion.
In 1776 George Washington's army retreated from New York City, leaving Fort Washington as the sole remaining American outpost on the island of Manhattan. Congress demanded that the fort be held, and Col. Magaw was put in command of the fort's 2800 men. . . . — Map (db m15860) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Cumberland County |
| | Formed January 27, 1750 from Lancaster County. Named for Cumberland County in England, it originally extended to Pennsylvania's western limits. Carlisle, county seat, was founded 1751. Crossed by major roads, county had a key role in westward migration. — Map (db m15856) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Cumberland County Civil War Memorial |
| | In honor of the soldiers of Cumberland County who fell in defense of the Union during the Great Rebellion. This monument is created by those who revere Patriotism and wish to perpetuate the Memory of the Brave Men, who aided in saving the Nation and securing the Blessings of Liberty to All. — Map (db m47312) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Cumberland County Historical Society & Hamilton Library Association — Walking Tour Stop 19 |
| | The Hamilton Library Association was charterd in 1874, and this two-story brick building was erected in 1881 to house its collection. The library was made possible by a bequest of $2,000 from James Hamilton (1793-1873), a prominent Carlisle lawyer and scholar, who was active in local educational and religious matters. His home stood on the north side of West High Street near the entrance gate of the Society's parking lot. In Hamilton's will he left money and a 60' x 60' lot on the corner of . . . — Map (db m30830) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Dickinson College |
| | Dr. Benjamin Rush envisioned a new type of education for post-Revolutionary America, a useful education in the liberal arts. Rush, with the assistance of Col. John Montgomery of Carlisle, founded Dickinson College to prepare an engaged citizenry able to meet the leadership needs of the new nation. Chartered on September 9, 1783 and named for John Dickinson, the college was the first established west of the Susquehanna River. — Map (db m16085) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Dickinson School of Law |
| | Oldest law school in Pennsylvania; founded in 1834 by the Honorable John Reed, eminent jurist, and author of "Pennsylvania Blackstone." Andrew Curtin, Civil War Governor, was one of earliest graduates. — Map (db m30320) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Dickinson Students Part Ways |
| | Before the war, the student body of Dickinson College was fairly evenly divided between Northern and Southern students, and thus the college was represented by soldiers on both sides of the conflict. The split is reflected in an autograph book in the college’s archives. The autographs show parting words between some of the 118 students enrolled in April, 1861 as they prepared to depart for their respective homes. Many of them expected to meet one another on the battlefield at some future date . . . — Map (db m35162) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Duncan-Stiles House — Walking Tour Stop 6 |
| | This grand three-story Federal-style house “was by far the most expensive private house ever built in Carlisle,” wrote James Hamilton, Jr. in the 1870s. It was planned and built, c. 1811, by Judge Thomas Duncan's wife as a dwelling for her son Stephen and his bride Miss Margaretta Stiles. Marble stairs and a delicate iron railing lead up to the front door. Fluted pillars and a vaulted ceiling in the entry set off the curving staircase that leads to the third floor. Two large . . . — Map (db m19457) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Episcopal Square |
| | This square was set apart by the Penns, in 1751, for the Church of England; in continuous use since that time by St. John's Episcopal Church. In 1752, the first church building was erected. — Map (db m15789) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — First Presbyterian Church |
| | Oldest public building in Carlisle; erection begun, 1757. Here colonists met in 1774 to declare for independence, and George Washington worshipped, 1794. Congregation organized at Meeting House Springs in 1734. — Map (db m15794) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — First Presbyterian Church — Meeting House on the Square |
| | Many of the early settlers of Pennsylvania were Scots-Irish who brought with them their Presbyterian faith. By the early 1730's they were settling the Cumberland Valley, including the fertile land near the Conodoguinet Creek. In 1734, Presbyterians in this vicinity began gathering for worship at Meeting House Springs, a few miles west of here. Only the cemetery remains at the original site, and it contains some of the oldest marked graves west of the Susquehanna. this stone meeting house dates . . . — Map (db m30296) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Forbes Road — Raystown Path |
| | To capture Fort Duquesne, General Forbes marched an army, in 1758, from his main base at Carlisle to the forks of the Ohio. He followed as closely as he could with army wagons, the Raystown Indian and traders Path, widened by axemen under Colonel Henry Bouquet. — Map (db m30322) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Forbes Trail |
| | Per Tot Discrimina Through so many dangers In 1758, at the height of the French & Indian War, British General John Forbes and his troops took on a daunting task: To carve a trail, over 300 miles long, through the Pennsylvania backcountry and take French Fort Duquesne at the Forks of the Ohio River. Forbes Trail • Philadelphia • Carlisle • Bedford • Ligonier • Pittsburgh — Map (db m35554) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Frederick Douglass in Carlisle — Walking Tour Stop 4 |
| | Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818 and self-taught, became an internationally-renowned reformer and a leading voice in the fight against slavery. Douglass is known to have visited Carlisle on three occasions, although his first visit in August 1847 was limited to a brief stop at the train station where he met with representatives of Carlisle's antislavery society.
On March 2, 1872, Douglass again visited Carlisle, delivering a lecture in Rheem's Hall (located behind the old . . . — Map (db m19444) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Gen. John Armstrong |
| | “Hero of Kittanning,” Revolutionary officer; member of Continental Congress, County Judge, lived in a house on this site. Died at Carlisle, 1795. Buried in Old Graveyard, two blocks south. — Map (db m19427) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Gen. William Irvine |
| | Early Carlisle physician, member of Provincial Convention, Revolutionary officer, commander at Fort Pitt, occupied house that stood on this site before 1800. — Map (db m19433) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — George Washington |
| | Here George Washington reviewed militia from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, rendezvoused at Carlisle, October 1794, before marching to the western part of State to quell the Whiskey Rebellion — Map (db m30299) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Gettysburg Campaign |
| | Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's southern cavalry arrived July 1, 1863, by Dover and Dillsburg. Finding Ewell had left the day before, Stuart burned the U.S. Barracks and left for Gettysburg, where the battle had begun. — Map (db m30284) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Green Tree Inn |
| | In 1753, Benjamin Franklin stayed at inn on this site while he, Richard Peters, and Isaac Norris treated with Indians. Hamilton and Knox, members of Washington's cabinet, lodged here in 1794. — Map (db m15861) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Indian Cemetery |
| | Buried here are the Indians who died while attending the Carlisle Indian School (1879-1918). The original Indian cemetery was located to the rear of the grandstand on Indian Field. In 1931 the graves were transferred to this site. — Map (db m30290) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — James Wilson |
| | Early Carlisle lawyer, and representative to Continental Congress, occupied house that stood on this site. He was a signed of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the framers of the Constitution of U.S. — Map (db m30300) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Jim Thorpe |
| | In recognition of
the athletic achievements of
Jim Thorpe
Student of the Carlisle Indian School
Olympic Champion at Stockholm in 1912
and in 1950 voted
the Greatest Athlete and Football Player
of the First Half of the 20th Century — Map (db m16091) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — John Bannister Gibson |
| | Distinguished jurist and author of legal books, lived in this house from about 1820 until his death, 1853; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for 24 years of his 37 years membership. — Map (db m19434) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Lincoln Cemetery — Walking Tour Stop 21 |
| | Lincoln Cemetery is the final resting place for at least forty African American Civil War veterans, representing the famous 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry, 7th, 31st, 39th and the 44th Regiment. Included in this number are the following U.S. Colored Troops Regiments that were trained at Camp William Penn, located outside of Philadelphia, at LaMott, Pa.: 8th, 22nd, 25th, 32nd, 43rd and 127th.
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was the first . . . — Map (db m53628) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Major André |
| | For a short time in 1776, Major André and Lt. Despard, British prisoners of war, were detained in a tavern that stood on this site. Some years later, after an exchange and recapture, André was executed as a spy. — Map (db m30321) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Marianne Moore — (1887 - 1972) |
| | Eminent poet, editor, essayist, and teacher. Her independent spirit and keen eye for detail distinguished her life and work. Moore won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, the Bollingen Prize in poetry, and the National Book Award. She lived here (1896 - 1916). — Map (db m15787) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Market House Square — Walking Tour Stop 7 |
| | In their 1751 plan for Carlisle, the Penn family designated a portion of the Square to be used as a market. From 1751 until 1952 a market was held on this spot. Markets were held twice a week, and were overseen by the Clerk of the Market who was required to attend with his scales to validate the weight of goods sold. At least three market buildings stood here over the years. A 1760s map depicts an open-air building facing High Street. It was destroyed by a violent windstorm in 1836, and a . . . — Map (db m19490) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Memorial Park |
| | Memorial Park, created in 1974 as a recreation area for the surrounding community, stands on the site of Lincoln Cemetery. Originally named the African Cemetery of Carlisle, Lincoln Cemetery was in use as early as 1806.
Several hundred African-American men, women, and children are buried here including at least forty Civil War veterans, five of whom served in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry that led the assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina in July, 1863.
It is believed that Mrs. . . . — Map (db m53631) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Molly Pitcher |
| | Mary “Ludwig” Hays McCauley, known as “Molly Pitcher,” heroine at Battle of Monmouth, is buried in Old Graveyard just east of here. In this burial ground are graves of many distinguished citizens. — Map (db m16089) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Old Graveyard — Walking Tour Stop 10 |
| | The Old Graveyard was Carlisle's first burial ground. The earliest surviving marker is dated 1757, six years after Carlisle's founding 1n 1751. Title from the Penn family for the original “three acres, three quarters, and fifteen perches” for the Old Graveyard was not legally transferred until 1767. As one of the original seven public graveyards in colonial Pennsylvania, the Old Graveyard reflects the European pattern of public ownership rather than private ownership by families, . . . — Map (db m19494) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Old Prison — Walking Tour Stop 5 |
| | Visitors are surprised and delighted to see an English looking castle standing in the heart of downtown Carlisle, but they wonder what it is and when it was built. For 130 years it was the Cumberland County Prison, and when it was constructed in 1834 it represented the latest fashion in Pennsylvania prison architecture made popular by architect John Haviland. An earlier prison was erected at this location in 1754, and even though it was deemed unfit for human incarceration as early as the . . . — Map (db m19496) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Prelude to Gettysburg |
| | One of the great debates of our Country's history and legacy is what scholars call "the two Civil Wars": the first a matter of campaigns, generals, and troop movements and the second focusing on the ways that the great conflict affected the daily rhythms of life on farms, and in communities. Regardless, Gettysburg was the site of the largest battle ever fought on American soil and it involved a great deal more than the resources of one single, famous town. In six counties near Gettysburg, . . . — Map (db m16090) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Saint Katharine's Hall — 1901 - 1918 |
| | Built by Saint M. Katharine Drexel, S.B.S., Philadelphia heiress (1858-1955). Here she conducted a “select free colored school” for black children and served the Carlisle Indian School. She vowed to be “mother and servant of the Indian and Negro races.”
Declared Saint on October 1, 2000. — Map (db m19445) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Shelling of Carlisle |
| | James Sullivan, fifteen years old at the time of the shelling of Carlisle on July 1, 1863, stated, "...Mother...convinced of the bombardment...decided we had better get away from our part of town...She...set out with her two reluctant children up Main Street (High St.)...We had reached but a short distance west of the Square when a lively firing by the Confederate batteries began...A shell exploded with a deafening force back by the First Presbyterian Church; another across the street from . . . — Map (db m30293) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — St. Patrick's Church |
| | In 1779, Father Charles Sewall, S.J., took title to a lot here. Log structure built 1784; brick edifice in 1806. Present church erected 1893 by Father Henry G. Ganss. Adjacent is St. Katherine's Hall, built by Mother Katherine Drexel, 1901, for Catholics at Carlisle Indian School. — Map (db m19446) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The Benjamin Rush Campus of Dickinson College |
| | Named for Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) of Philadelphia, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the most eminent physician of his day. Prime mover in securing the college charter. — Map (db m35319) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The Carlisle Indian Industrial School |
| | This school was the model for a nationwide system of boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indians into mainstream culture. Over 10,000 indigenous children attended the school between 1879 and 1918. Despite idealistic beginnings, the school left a mixed and lasting legacy, creating opportunity for some students and conflicted identities for others. In this cemetery are 186 graves of students who died while at Carlisle. — Map (db m30289) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The Carlisle Theatre — Walking Tour Stop 13 |
| | The Carlisle Theatre, originally called The Comerford, opened its doors in May of 1939. It was by far the grandest of three movie “palaces” all within a block of one another and was the first centrally air conditioned building in Carlisle.
The Theatre was built in the Art Deco style known as “streamlined moderne.” From the razzle-dazzle modernistic marquee with its bold Deco lettering, to the richly designed interior, Art Deco styling abounds.
During its early . . . — Map (db m16078) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The Forbes Road |
| | In 1758, after three years of war in North America with the French and Indian alliance, the British Empire launched the Forbes Expedition. The campaign began in Carlisle, the county seat for territory that extended to the Ohio River. The British planned three great campaigns for 1758. One would capture Fort Louisbourgh in Canada. Another would besiege Fort Ticonderoga on the Hudson River. The third would end the attacks on the Virginia and Pennsylvania frontiers by taking Fort Duquesne at the . . . — Map (db m35320) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The High Street Train Stations — Walking Tour Stop 18 |
| | On August 19, 1837, a jubilant throng gathered in Carlisle to watch the Cumberland Valley Railroad's first train roll down High Street. Bands played, speeches were made, and the crowds cheered as the “Cumberland Valley” locomotive and its yellow painted cars rolled by.
For 99 years trains ran down the length of High Street. A cloud of smoke and the train's shrill whistle sent many a man and young boy to the station on High & Pitt streets to watch the passengers arrive and . . . — Map (db m16088) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The John Dickinson Campus of Dickinson College |
| | Named for John Dickinson President of Pennsylvania and of Delaware. "The penman of the Revolution," and first president of the Board of Trustees of this college. — Map (db m30319) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The Jordan Gravestone |
| | Thanks to the dedication, appreciation, love and respect that Ms. Fleta Jordan had for her ancestors, she went to court to save the Jordan gravestone from being removed as a result of the April 20, 1967 Court Order designating the Borough of Carlisle's takeover of the cemetery to become a Memorial Park and Playground, thus removing all gravestones. The gravestone is that of Samuel A. Jordan, Rachel A. Jordan and Annie R. Jordan. Ms. Fleta Jordan lived across the street at 128 West Penn Street, . . . — Map (db m53627) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The McClintock Riot — Walking Tour Stop 8 |
| | Although Pennsylvania was a free state, where no person could be born into slavery, ownership of slaves had not been illegal, and as recently as 1840, two-dozen slaves were held in bondage in Cumberland County. At that time, more than three hundred free African-Americans lived in Carlisle. Around June 1, 1847 more than a dozen slaves escaped from Maryland into the Cumberland Valley. Near Shippensburg, two owners, James Kennedy and Howard Hollingsworth, caught three of the fugitives: a man, . . . — Map (db m30848) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The President’s House — Dickinson College — Walking Tour Stop 15 |
| | This colonial revival-style home began as a smaller “villa,” built in 1833 by the Hon. John Reed, who had attended Dickinson College with the class of 1806. Through classes conducted in the basement of this house, Judge Reed in 1834 gave an informal start to the Dickinson School of Law, which is separate from Dickinson College. In 1889, Dickinson College President George Reed (no relation) purchased the property. He sold it to the college, and it has since served as home to . . . — Map (db m43947) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The Return of the Captives — Walking Tour Stop 1 |
| | Near Pittsburgh, on July 9, 1755, a French and Native American force decimated a small British and colonial army led by Edward Braddock, opening all of Pennsylvania to Indian raids. The Delaware tribe, under their leader Shingas, raided, killing and scalping settlers from Scranton to Virginia. They often took able-bodied settlers, including women and children, captive, weaving them into the fabric of their tribes. The raids reached Carlisle in January 1756 when nine settlers were killed and . . . — Map (db m15796) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The Salvation Army — Stuart House — (125-127 South Hanover Street) |
| | The purchase of this property was funded by the G. B. Stuart Charitable Foundation Mr. Stuart’s ancestor, Samuel Stuart (also known as Stewart), purchased this property September 7, 1778, where he engaged in tavern keeping and for a period of time this facility housed Hessian prisoners of war. — Map (db m35246) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The Shelling of Carlisle — Walking Tour Stop 11 |
| | On June 27, 1863, a dusty column of 15,000 rebels led by General Richard Ewell marched up the road from Shippensburg into Carlisle. Foraging for supplies, they camped here until Tuesday, June 30. They departed that day, headed towards Mount Holley Springs. Other than the ample provisions they had taken, they left the community unscathed. The next day, July 1, the townspeople cheered the arrival of Major General William Smith's four regiments of Federal militiamen, but their joy was . . . — Map (db m15857) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — The Union Fire Company — Walking Tour Stop 22 |
| | On April 6, 1789, a group of local real estate owners - worried about the possibility of fire in the borough - organized Carlisle's first volunteer fire company. They named and modeled it after the Union Fire Company of Philadelphia, the first fire company in Pennsylvania. From 1789 until 1819, members held meetings in the Courthouse. A two-story town hall, build in 1819, then housed fire apparatus on the first level and a meeting room upstairs. The town hall, the Courthouse, and the equipment . . . — Map (db m30832) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — Thomas Butler |
| | On this lot Thomas Butler had his home and gunshop about 1764; the latter still stands to the rear. Butler and five sons, all officers, served in the Revolution. Often referred to as the “Fighting Butlers.” — Map (db m16071) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — West College: A National Historic Landmark — Walking Tour Stop 16 |
| | West College – known affectionately as Old West – traces its roots to February 1803, when the college’s main building burned to the ground after four years of costly construction. In a bind, the college trustees appealed for help. Benjamin Latrobe, recently appointed architect of the U.S. Capitol, designed the new structure free of charge. His plans recommended a limestone façade in place of the original brick. Latrobe’s contribution, along with donations from Thomas Jefferson, . . . — Map (db m35322) HM |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Carlisle — World War Memorial |
| | Liberty Truth In commemoration of the patriotism of our brothers who went forth at the call of their country to serve in two World Wars and in memory of these who died that Liberty might live World War I Abram Dewalt John Z. Steese Charles H. Rynard John W. Wilson World War II Albert Clouse Woodrow Potteiger Floyd Minnich Ernest Saphore Warren Otto Clark Sherman Charles Zinn Erected by Carlisle Aerie 1299 Fraternal Order . . . — Map (db m35567) HM |
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