Black History Festival
Visit our table at the Hamilton Elementary School during Hope Station's Black History Festival. Hamilton Elementary is located at: 735 Clay St, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013
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Museum Scavenger Hunt
Cumberland County Historical Society 21 N. Pitt Street, Carlisle, PA, United StatesHelp CPARC raise awareness about Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Awareness month. Join CPARC for a scavenger hunt at the Cumberland County Historical Society. Participants from the CPARC Community Fusion day program are eager to meet you and search for clues in the museum! CPARC staff and individuals love doing the scavenger hunts that the […]
Museum of the American Revolution Bus Trip
TOUR BOOKED Visit the museum and their special exhibition Cost of Revolution: The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier. The tour will leave Two Mile House at 9:00am. Participants will have time to explore Historic Philadelphia and have lunch on their own before touring the Museum. Dinner is arrainged at the Black Powder Tavern […]
Tour of Two Mile House
Two Mile House 1189 Walnut Bottom Rd, Carlisle, PA, United StatesJoin Sharon Filipovich for a tour of the historic Two Mile House. Visitors will hear the history of the house and learn about current uses of the property by CCHS. Members free; $5 for nonmembers
Slavery in the North Book Group
Slavery in the North Book Group over Zoom. Please note that new registrants will need to provide a copy of the book for themselves.
Underground Railroad Walking Tour
Tour Full Matthew March, Education Curator, will lead this walking tour that will focus on the role of abolitionists and freedom seekers in Boiling Springs. The historic village was the site of an Underground Railroad “station” operated by area resident, Daniel Kaufman. Meet in Boiling Springs at the parking lot by the Mill apartments off […]
Camp Michaux Walking Tour
Tour Full David Smith 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 in Pine Grove State Park. Cost: $10/member; $15/nonmember; $5/school-age-children
Museum Exhibit Celebration Reception
Reception for the Artifacts Speak! Exhibit. Cumberland County collections share their story in the new exhibit “Artifacts Speak”. With help from community organizations in Cumberland County, CCHS shines a spotlight on how seemingly normal items can have a fascinating story. Sponsored in honor of John and MaryPat Wentzel by the Wentzel Family RSVP below.
Adventures In History 21+ Summer Camp Sampler
Two Mile House 1189 Walnut Bottom Rd, Carlisle, PA, United StatesRegistration Closed No more wishing you could do what the kids do! For the first time, CCHS will offer a one-day summer camp for adults. Come learn how to make a fire with flint and steel and use that fire to cook lunch. Other skills stations to include woodworking, fabric arts, military drilling, and leather […]
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 means of transporting goods through the county. Many towns were created due to this economic growth directly resulting from the presence of railroads, including Enola. […]
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 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 […]
Preservation Roundtable – Virtual
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. […]