The 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 at 5:30PM on the ground of the Two Mile House pollinator garden they will be presenting a program Planting in the Shade. The featured speaker […]
Registration Closed No more wishing you could do what the kids do! CCHS will offer a one-day summer camp for adults. This year we will be moving forward to the 1800s with all new crafts, foods, and skills. At the end of a long day of learning and fun, wind down in the shaded gardens […]
Looking for new reading material? Look no further because CCHS' is holding its much anticipated used book sale! We will be having two preview days on September 23rd & 24th in Todd Hall at 21 N. Pitt Street from 10am-4pm. Come to browse and purchase from our selection and stop at our exhibit if you […]
CCHS is featuring a fashion show during its’ Inaugural Annual Gala presented by the Bobby Rahal Automotive Group on October 9, 2021. Inspired by the 2021 exhibit, “A Woman’s Place: The Changing Role of Women in Cumberland County,” CCHS invites regional fashion designers to pull inspiration from our textile collection and reinvent those looks for […]
“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 and designs by the architect, John Reed. The title references a welcoming lecture by the Architecture School’s Chairman in Mr. Reed’s freshman year in college. […]
Help us tidy Two Mile House as we wrap up the 2021 rental season. Work will take place in the gardens and inside the house. Please let us know you’ll help by emailing sfilipovich@historicalsociety.com
SOLD OUT Date: Saturday, November 13, 2021 1 PM David Smith, volunteer & Board President, will lead the popular Camp Michaux walking tour of the old Bunker Hill Farm; Pine Grove Furnace CCC Camp; Pine Grove Furnace POW Interrogation Camp; and the United Church of Christ & United Presbyterian Church Camp. Meet at the furnace […]
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 - Official Trailer from Caldera Productions on Vimeo. About the film: In 2017 a delegation of Northern Arapaho tribal members traveled from Wyoming to Pennsylvania to […]
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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 histories. After the panel discussion, audiences are invited to participate in a collaborative community art project designed to highlight these stories. This program is co-sponsored […]
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 started. The program will trace their progression from Camp Wayne in West Chester to their capture at the Wilderness in May 1864. It is a […]
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 of the Underground Railroad. Register Here
