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 Confederate Army Brigadier General and a prominent farmer and master builder in rural Orange County, Virginia, Julia Jennings led an extraordinary life for a woman […]
Join CCHS for the Cumberland Co. Preservation Virtual Roundtable. This month's meeting will feature an update from a CCHS summer intern who conducted a preservation survey among municipalities, and members of the Sheepford Road Bridge group working to save their metal truss bridge in Upper Allen Township. To join please register with the event link. […]
Join us for a modified 2020 McLain Bash at the Two Mile House on August 28 - 29th! 2020's Bash will be a socially distant whisky tasting. Small groups of 6 will get 2-hours at the Two Mile House with a private whisky tasting of 4 single malt Scotch whiskies. Guests will get a 5th […]
Book Group, Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of the Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors by Denise K. Lajimodiere Join us as we read Denise Lajimodiere’s latest book Stringing Rosaries which explores Indian boarding school survivors’ stories. The book “presents a brief history of the boarding school programs for Indigenous […]
Architectural historian, Jerry Clouse will give a virtual presentation on the barns of Perry County. It is based on the year-long research he conducted for the June 2019 tour which he led for the Historic Barn & Farm Foundation (HBFF) of Pennsylvania. HBFF meets and tours a different county in the state each year. The […]
Register at the link below to donate blood to the American Red Cross: https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?order=DATE&range=10&zipSponsor=CCHS
Help us tidy the Two Mile House before we start the 2021 rental season! Work will take place in the gardens and inside the house.
Join us in discussing Fire Light: The Life of Angel DeCora, Winnebago Artist by Linda M. Waggoner. Discussion will be over Zoom. Must purchase own copy of the book.
Every year CCHS' Two Mile House hosts a supper party in honor of the J. McLain and Mary Wheeler King family and our region's Celtic past. Whisky tastings, music, delicious food and great friends abound. The party is open to anyone 21 years of age and up. Join us in 2021 for another great time. […]
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 […]