From Personal Playground to Public Treasure
KINGS GAP ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA November 16, 2019 9:00 AM $8 - Member Tickets (CCHS and Friends of Kings Gap Members) $12 - Non-Member Tickets FROM PERSONAL […]
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Talks and Presentations
History and Hops
Burd's Nest Brewing Company 19 N Hanover St, Carlisle, PA, United StatesLindsay Varner will discuss the Mt. Tabor AME Zion Church & Cemetery in Mt. Holly Springs and the on-going preservation work on the site.
100 Years of Enola with Jim Leonard
Join Jim Leonard for discussion on the history the Enola Railroad and the construction boom in the late 1870s and continued through the early 1900s, with Enola becoming the main […]
100 years of Women’s Suffrage
When she died in 1933, her obituary in “Equal Rights,” the journal of the National Women’s Party, was headlined “Julia Jennings, Feminist.” Born in 1865 to the sister of a […]
History Plus Horticulture at TMH
Todd Hall 21 N. Pitt St., Carlisle, PA, United StatesThe Cumberland County Historical Society and the Penn State Master Gardeners are cooperating in a joint effort to celebrate history and horticulture with a program highlighting both. On August 2 […]
Reed Architectural Lecture Series with John P. Reed
“Architecture is about Ideas: Grid, Sectional Space, Detail and Drawing” This talk examines four important topics of architectural design and thought through the prism of a number recently completed projects […]
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Home from School: The Children of Carlisle Film Premiere
EVENT FULL Join CCHS at the Carlisle Theatre for the premiere of the film Home from School: The Children of Carlisle. Panel discussion to follow. Home From School - […]
African American History in Carlisle
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts, Dickinson College Campus and community scholars will introduce audiences to narratives of African American experience often left out of Carlisle’s more well-known […]
Carlisle Fencibles
Lecture by Randy Watts. This is a story of a group of men from Cumberland County who enlisted for military service in April 1861, just weeks after the Civil War […]
The Robinsons of Rokeby and Kaufman’s Station
Join Tucker Foltz (Rokeby Museum Education Programs Manager) and Matthew March (Education Director at Cumberland County Historical Society) for a discussion on two very different sites that operated as part […]
The Real Boring (Mill) Story
Lecture by Randy Watts. History if fraught with incorrectly told stories that become accepted as fact. Such is the case of the Revolutionary War boring mill used to machine the […]