Cumberland County History – The Journal

Editor’s Introduction by David L. Smith
The Entrenchments at Carlisle During the French and Indian War by Randy Watts
Serving up Salvation One Ladle at a Time by David H. Peiffer
Female Educators of the Mechanicsburg Schools: The First 100 Years by William J. Murray
New Year’s Eve on the Northern Central by Daniel J. Heisey
George and Sis Hansell’s German Adventures in 1938 by their son, George A. Hansell III
Art at Two Mile House by Mary B. Vaverly
2022 Cumberland County Historical Society Honorees
Call for Papers

Editor’s Introduction by David L. Smith
A Fulton Follows Railroading into the 20th Century by Sharon Fulton Beach
“The Part that Wasn’t Printed in the Program”: Crime and Disorder at Cumberland County Circuses in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Jo van Kuilenburg
Secrets of Camp Michaux: The Railroad Brings the Second World War to the Children of Hunters Run by Vincent J. Montano
The Apple Pie Caper and the CVRR by David H. Peiffer
Trails to Rails and Back to Trails: A Partial History of the Cumberland Valley Rail Trail by Sandy Mader
The Fountain on the Square by William Murray
2023 Cumberland County Historical Society Honorees
Book Review: The Strange Case of Dr. Paul Schoeppe by William E. Butler
Preservation Update by David L. Smith

Editor’s Introduction by David L. Smith
Mysteries of the William Black Homestead Resolved: The Once Unknown Now Known by David H. Peiffer
Correcting the Mish Mash Surronding the Locacation of the Miesch Mansion by David H. Peiffer
Untangling the Samuel Hustons of East Pennsboro by Jeffrey R. Jones
The Education of a Young Lady: Mary Hamilton Goes to Boarding School by Merri Lou Schaumann
Broad Marble Heights and Naval Housing in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania by William J. Murray
Book Review: Carlisle, Pennyslvania, It’s Beginnings 1747-1759 by the Honorable Kevin Hess
Historic Preservation in Cumberland County by David L. Smith
2024 Cumberland County Historical Society Honorees

Message from the Publications Committee by Roland M. Baumann
Mechanicsburg’s Frankeberger Tavern, a search for confirmation by William C. Davis
Dunbar’s March, by William A. Hunter
The Rage of Opposing Government: The Stump Affair of 1768, by Linda A. Ries
Colonel George McFeely, by Joseph E. Walker

Samuel Roger Smith and the Development of Grantham, by E. Morris Sider
The German Lutheran and Reformed Churches in Cumberland County, 1763 -1793, by Charles H. Galtfelter
The Photographic Holdings of the Cumberland County Historical Society, by Susan Hartman
The Upper Allen Heritage Committee: Its Origins, by Robert D. Myers

The Evolution of Ten Pre-1745 Presbyterian Societies [Silver Spring, Meeting House Spring, Big Spring, and others] in the Cumberland Valley, by William T. Swaim
Symbolism on Cumberland County Tombstones, by Virginia Rupp
What’s in a Name: Three Mile Island
The Mechanics of Mechanicsburg: The Naming of a Central Pennsylvania Town, by Jeffrey Ives, et al.

Christian Frederick Post: Missionary and Diplomat by Thomas C. Chase
Carlisle Bottles: A Picture Story by George Milos
Silas C. Swallow: Reformer by Richard H. Steinmetz, Sr.
Penn Township: 125 Years by Robert J. Smith
Architecture of Western Cumberland County by Nancy VanDolsen
Names for Camp Hill by Adam Grotsky

The Great Grangers’ Picnic Exhibition, Williams Grove, 1873-1916, by Warren J. Gates
Crime and its Resolution in 18th Century Cumberland County, by G. S. Rowe
“Pennsylvania”, a song, by Helen Hall Bucher
Pre-1858 Architecture in Lower Allen Township, by Virginia Rupp
Longsdorf Originals [Longsdorf family; early local woman doctor], by Robert G. Smith
What’s in a Name: Hogestown

Ephraim Blaine [Revolutionary War], by Willis Kocher
The United Methodist Home for Children at Shiremanstown, by Martha L. Detweiler
The Cumberland County Aerial Photographs of Samuel W. Kuhnert, by Linda A. Ries
Carlisle Architecture, by Nancy Van Dolsen
Publication of Interest: Miniatures of Mechanicsburg, [book review] by Daniel J. Heisey
What’s in a Name: New Cumberland
“The Historian”, a poem by Alice Mackenzie Swaim

Robert Lowry Sibbett (1826-1898): A Medical Reformer, by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
Household Inventories, Lower Allen Township, 1760-1800, by Jerry A. Clouse
Arsenic in the Leaven [18th century Carothers family murders], by Mary Anne Morefield
Portfolio of Artistic Genius: The Architecture of James W. Minick, by Randolph H. Bates
What’s in a Name: Lemoyne

Goodbye, Molly Pitcher [a reconsideration of the Molly Pitcher/ Captain Molly/ Margaret Corbin legends], by D. W. Thompson and Merri Lou Schaumann
Primitive Passageways to Future Newville [Allegheny Road; Virginia Road; Mount Rock, Creek, and Springfield Roads], by William T. Swaim
Tower Homes of Mechanicsburg [Victorian, Italian Villa-style architecture], by Eva M. Williams
From Railroad to Turnpike [use of unfinished South Penn Railroad right-of-way to build Pennsylvania Turnpike], by C. L. Siebert, Jr.
What’s in a Name: Newville

Who Was Lewis the Robber? [19th century local folk hero], by Mac E. Barrick
False Start: Trindle Springs, 1728-1828, by Daniel J. Heisey
The Development of a Telephone System in the Cumberland Valley [local inventor Daniel Drawbaugh vs. Bell; Cumberland Valley Telephone Co.], by Gilmore B. Seavers
A Reminiscence: Free Wood at Forge Hill, by Robert J. Smith

John Harris, Jr.: Founder of Harrisburg, by Kyle Weaver
William Maclay and the Fight for the National Capital [Harrisburg], by Linda Baker
Archibald McAllister at Fort Hunter [Harrisburg], by Carl A. Dickson
Harrisburg’s Unrealized Economic Expectations, by Gerald G. Eggert
Reminiscences, by Charles R. Boak

Archibald Loudon [early local printer, active 1804-1815] of Carlisle: Disseminator of Early American Culture, by Eric Fretz
Southern Sentiments: A Look at Attitudes of Civil War Soldiers [excerpts from letters of Cumberland County soldiers; war coverage in local papers], by Patricia M. Collmeyer
Lucy Winston: Determination in a Dress [woman in politics in 1930s], by Lynn Farner
From Depression Street to Prosperity Avenue: Turning the Corner with Roosevelt in Cumberland County [local economy during Great Depression; use of Community Chest], by Donna Swanson
What’s in a Name: Enola

Callapatscink: the Yellow Breeches Creek [reprint of 1909 work about the Yellow Breeches; mills; bridges; etc.], by John R. Miller; photographs by C. L. Seibert, Jr.
James Smith and the Black Boys: Rebellion on the Pennsylvania Frontier, 1763-1769, by Rhea S. Klenovich
A Corner of Carlisle History [East High and East Streets], by Dawn L. Flower
What’s in a Name: Shiremanstown

The Family of John Armstrong [genealogy of John Armstrong, Sr. (1717-1795) by the author of “Mother Cumberland], by Raymond Martin Bell
Down Memory Lane [reminiscences about the Sadler, Bosler, Hays, Blumenthal, Kramer, Barnitz families; the South College Street area circa 1920-1930; Mooreland Deer Park; Pine Grove; Camp Rothrock; Carlisle schools, businesses, movie houses, theaters; West High Street businesses; local trains and trolleys; last train on High Street, 1936; Democratic party politics during the Depression; the 1955 Courthouse shooting in which attorney John D. Faller died]; by Robert Lee Jacobs
George N. Wade: Consummate Politician [Pa. State Senator], by Mark J. LaFaver
Dickinson, December 7, 1945 [Dickinson College students during World War II], by Christine Myers Crist
What’s in a Name: Churchtown

Politics, Corruption and Ethnic Rivalry in Cumberland County: The Duncan-Lamberton Duel of 1793, by Donna Swanson
Art from the President’s House: A Portrait of John McClintock [anti-slavery Dickinson College professor; McClintock Slave Riot, 1847], by Susan Fritscher
State Commission Lists Forty-Eight Historical Markers in County, by the Editor
What’s in a Name: West Fairview

Washington: Revolutionary War Arsenal at Carlisle [Washingtonburg; Carlisle Barracks; Hessian powder magazine], by John B. B. Trussell
The Smeads, by Raphael Smead Hays II
Vance McCormick’s Relationship with Woodrow Wilson: A View Through Their Correspondence, by LeRoy W. Toddes
Resistance to the War in Vietnam: a Central Pennsylvania Perspective, Jon Pennington
What’s in a Name: New Kingstown

The Reverend Thomas Barton’s Conflict with Colonel John Armstrong, ca. 1758 [Penn Proprietary politics; Presbyterians vs. Anglicans in colonial PA; 1756 Kittanning raid; Forbes Expedition] by James P. Myers, Jr.
Murder, Mischief & Mayhem in the Good Old Days in Cumberland County, by Merri Lou Scribner Schaumann
“Hey Ollie, Let’s Go Railroading,” [County railroading photos] by Jim Bradley
A Tale of Two Towns: Divergent Views of Eighteenth-Century Carlisle, [early description]
of Carlisle by Crevecoeur, Davidson, Nisbet and others], by Judith Ridner
Forty Four in Forty-Three: To War [enlistment of 44 Dickinson College students in Army, 1943, with names and photos]
What’s in a Name: Shepherdstown

We the People Identified: Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and the First United States Census, 1790-1791, by John C. Fralish, Jr.
From Carlisle and Fort Couch: The War of Corporal John Cantilion [Civil War], by James A. Holechek
Lenore Embick Flower [Irving College, Civic Club, women’s suffrage, YWCA, American Red Cross], by Dawn Flower
What’s in a Name: Hickorytown
INDEX to Journal Volumes VI through X

The Ancient and Important Walnut Bottom Path-Road [Walnut Bottom Road; Great Road; Virginia Road; Conoy Path], by William T. Swaim
Justice James Wilson of Cumberland County [signer of Declaration of Independence and U. S. Constitution], by Lewis E. Lehrman
The Capitol and the College: the Latrobe Connection [Benjamin Latrobe, architect of Dickinson College’s “Old West” and U. S. Capitol], by Susan Fritschler
Sarah’s Story [Deeter family, Mechanicsburg], by Emily Deeter
What’s in a Name: Wormleysburg

Geronimo and Carlisle [Apache Chief’s visit to Carlisle Indian School, 1905; Indian School photos], by Richard L. Tritt
My Friend Mary Wheeler King (1901-1992) [Two Mile House; King and McLain families], by Ann Kramer Hoffer
Pilots and Airports of Cumberland County, by Charles B. Fager, Jr.
The Greek Community of Carlisle, by John Peslis
What’s in a Name: White Hill

Fort Loudoun [French and Indian War], by William A. Hunter
Cumberland County Medical Society, 1866-1916, by Robert J. McConaghie, M. D.
William McCormick’s Estate Papers, 1805, by Willis L. Shirk, Jr.
A Traveler in Cumberland County, 1844 [travel narrative, Charles Wilkes]
What’s in a Name: Carlisle Springs

A Musical Romance: Tempest and Cornman [Nellie Clayton Cornman (1868-1958) and Robert Tempest (1868-1955), Carlisle musicians], by Elizabeth Flower James
Some Benefactors of St. Patrick’s Church, by Terry L. Nickey
The Mechanicsburg Legend of Washington Irving [Irving College], by Daniel J. Heisey
George B. Vashon: An Autobiographical Letter [George Boyer Vashon (1824-1878), African-American attorney, educator, and poet), by Melissa J. Delbridge
A Traveler in the County, 1809 [travel narrative, Joshua Gilpin]
What’s in a Name: Milltown/Eberly’s Mills
Robert Grant Crist, Historian: A Memoir, by Mark J. LaFaver

Historical Work of Milton Embick Flower, by the Editor
The Spanish Flu in Cumberland County, 1918, by Christopher T. Liartis
Iron Workers in Cumberland County [Carlisle Iron Works; Pine Grove Furnace; Ege families], by Linda F. Witmer
The Carlisle Deluge, 1779 [“Pumpkin Flood” debris flow], by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
Mechanicsburg’s Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Park, by William J. Murray
Cumberland County in the Panic of 1819, by a Contributor
A Traveler in Cumberland County, 1807 [travel narrative, Fortescue Cuming (1762-1828)]

Women’s Voices at the Picnic: Programs at Williams Grove in the 1890s [Grange movement; women’s suffrage, temperance], by Warren J. Gates
Ida G. Kast, Cumberland County’s First Woman Attorney, by Frances H. Del Duca
Transportation, Competition, and the Growth of a Town: Carlisle, 1750-1860 [Pennsylvania turnpikes, canals, railroads], by Nancy Van Dolsen
The Artificial Swan, The Elephant, and 100 Educated Canaries: Public Performances in Cumberland County, 1800-1870 [excerpted from the book In Pursuit of Pleasure: Leisure in 19th century Cumberland County; see CCHS Publications list for availability of this title], by Clarke W. Garrett
Newville’s “Hometown Newspaper”: the Valley Times-Star and its editors, by Angela Rickabaugh Shears
Newville in 1859: Extracts from its newspaper [Newville Valley Star]
The Carlisle Deluge, 1779, Revisited [Pumpkin Flood debris flow], by Helen L. Delano and Noel Potter, Jr.
Destruction of the Court House, 1845: an Eyewitness Account, by John Hays

Charles Francis Himes: Portrait of a Photographer, by Stacie L. Vodra
Andrew Carothers (1778-1836): His Life and Times, by Dawn L. Flower
Newville as It Is (1859), by Angela Rickabaugh Shears
A Traveler in the County, 1802 [Francois Andre Michaux]
Historical Miscellanies [Fourth of July, 1796; fashionable baby names in 1775; Dedication of National Cemetery at Gettysburg, 1863; George Kline’s book order, 1796]

“Americans Shall Rule America!” The Know-Nothing Party in Cumberland County, by John Wesley Weigle, III
Bishop Henry Heisey Brubaker, Missionary from Mechanicsburg, by Daniel J. Heisey
The Invasion: Rebel Occupancy of Carlisle, 1863, by S. K. Donavin
The Deterioration of the Seminary Rule System at Irving College, 1909-1926, by Chad Leinaweaver
Physical Remains of the Confederate Invasion of 1863, by James D. Flower

“We’re Not in the Cumberland Valley Any More, Toto!” The Great Migration to Kansas in the 1870s, by Clarke W. Garrett
The Third Pennsylvania Colony in Kansas, 1878, by Jacob Sackman
Coming to Kansas: Details of the Trip and Location of a Pennsylvania Colony,
Carlisle Mirror, 1878
Penn Township in Kansas, Carlisle Herald, 1878
Pennsylvania’s Redcoats [French and Indian War; Royal American Regiment; Thomas Dunbar; General Edward Braddock], by B. Bruce-Briggs
Harrisburg’s Civil War Patriot and Union, by Richard L. Dahlen
Wasu, Student at the Carlisle Indian School, [reprint of recollection of Mary Rippey Heistand, originally published in Army and Navy Life, XIV, 1909]
Book Review: The Bitter Fruits: The Civil War comes to a Small Town in Pennsylvania, by David G. Colwell [letters of Cumberland County Civil War soldier James Colwell and his wife Annie]

Walter Harrison Hitchler [Dean of Dickinson School of Law 1930-1954], by Mark W. Podvia
A Past Standing Outside Time: The Election of 1912 in Cumberland County Newspapers, by Jack R. Spooner
John Lindner [Lindner Shoe Company; Lindner Greenhouses; Lindner Park; Forest Hills; Camp Lindner; Lindner vs. Kronenberg], by Daniel J. Heisey

Building on a Legacy [history of Cumberland County Historical Society], by Barbara Bartos
The Public and Private in Writing History [Carlisle African-American history; Reuben Washington; Johnson, Washington, Jenkins, Foulk/Foulke families; Civil War], by Margaret D. Garrett
Carlisle Barracks, 1854-1855, by Richard J. Coyer
John C. Lesher: A Carlisle Photographer, by Martha L. Berg

Nineteenth-century German-American Reading Societies: An Alternative Educating Institution, by William G. Durden
The McClintock Slave Riot of 1847 [fugitive slaves; Dickinson Professor John McClintock], by Martha C. Slotten
Free Soil: The Birth of the Republican Party in Cumberland County, by John W. Weigel
Poets and Patricians: The Bosler Library at One Hundred, by Daniel J. Heisey
A Youthful Friendship: Smead and Bache, by Raphael S. Hays, II, and Whitfield Bell, Jr.

Cumberland Valley: Patterns of Migration, 1759-1890, by Clarke Garrett
The Democratic Alternative to Free Soil, 1847-1860, by John W. Weigel
The Pine Grove Prisoner of War Camp [Secret World War II Interrogation camp at Pine Grove], by Patrick L. Metcalf
Sermon on the Tenth Anniversary of his Pastorate, 1873 [John Ault], edited by Thomas E. Herrold
History of Uriah United Methodist Church, Gardners, by Charles E. Trump

Crimes and Punishment in Provincial Cumberland County, by Morris N. Shenk
The Allen and East Pennsboro Society for the Recovery of Stolen Horses, by William Thomas
Early Proverbs from Carlisle, 1788-1821, by Mac E. Barrick
Trains and Trolleys in Old Carlisle, by George M. Diffenderfer

History of the Callapatschink / Yellow Breeches Creek, by Robert D. Rowland
A Train Ride through Carlisle: Reminiscence and Description, by John F. Otstot
A Traveler in the County, 1840 [travel narrative, James Silk Buckingham]
Book Review: Cumberland Justice: Legal Practice in Cumberland County 1750-2000

James W. Sullivan, Carlisle Man of Letters, by Jan Hays
James W. Sullivan: An Autobiographical Letter, by Raphael S. Hays II
The Near-Death Experience of John Wilkins, by Merri Lou Schaumann
Albert Abelt: All-Around Artist-Athlete (1913-1964), by Karl H. Pass
Book Review: Twentieth Century Thoughts. Carlisle: The Past Hundred Years, by Ann Kramer Hoffer [see CCHS Publications list for availability of this title]

Weakley Family Black Sheep: Why James Geddes Weakley was Disowned, by B. J. Alderman
Wilhelm Schimmel: Cumberland County “Image Maker” (1817-1890) [folk art; woodcarving], by Karl H. Pass
Noble Purposes and Labors of Love: Women Answering the Call on the Home Front, by Christine Ameduri
The Children’s Garden: A Mechanicsburg Kindergarten, by Christine Musser

Oaths of Allegiances in 18th Century Cumberland County [Revolutionary War period; early Cumberland County families, including Armstrong, McFarlane, Pollock, Loudon, Denny, McClay, Semple, Steel, Hamilton, Steel, and many others], by Mary Anne Morefield
“My dear father…”: An Indian School Student’s Letter Home [Benjamin “Bennie” Thomas, Pueblo; Carlisle Indian Industrial School], by Clarke Garrett
The Silk Road to New Cumberland [silkworm cultivation], by Daniel J. Heisey
Women of Carlisle’s East End [Molly Pitcher; Biddle family; Female Benevolent Society; St. Katharine Drexel; etc.], by Sandy Mader
Tobias Hendricks: A Family Tradition of Service [Lowther Manor; Shaawna Creek; Yellow Britches/Yellow Breeches Creek], by Bob Rowland
Jacob Fought’s Early Years in Cumberland County (1798-1811) [County Taverns], by Stephen B. Hatton
The One-Room School at Historic Peace Church, by Dr. Stanley N. Miller

Jacob Fought, Carlisle Tavern Keeper, 1815-19, by Stephen B. Hatton
The Works of Henry Ganss [St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Carlisle], by Daniel J. Heisey
The Estate of Peter Helbron [detailed estate inventory listing, 1816], by Daniel J. Heisey
Cumberland County Stone and Monument Carvers Prior to 1900, by Barbara Bartos
Ambush at Willis Church [Civil War; Vanderbilt family], by BJ Alderman
Return of a Native: Holmead Phillips [American painter, 1889-1975] Returns to Cumberland County, by Patricia A. Mateya
Canals, Railroads, Philadelphia, and the Struggle for Internal Improvement in the Cumberland Valley, 1825-1837 [Cumberland Valley Railroad], by Mark W. Podvia
Etahdleuh Doanmoe: From Prisoner to Missionary [Ft. Marion Indian prisoners; Kiowa; Carlisle Indian Industrial School; ledger art; pictographs], by Sandy Mader

Robert James Coffey (1839-1910): An Unsung Pennsylvanian Soldier and Writer [Civil War; Ft. Delaware prison], by Dr. Dale B. J. Randall
Introduction of Thompson-McGowan Collection [Emma Thompson McGowan, 1876-1966; African-American history], by Susan Meehan
Select Brotherhoods: The Shippensburg Black and White Freemasons, 1858-1919, by John P. Bland
Reconstructing the Demographics of Cumberland County, 1750-1800, by Paul Marr
The Topless Bathing Suit Reconsidered [Carlisle Trust Company; Christmas Savings Club; Merkel Landis, 1875-1960], by Daniel J. Heisey

The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, by Michael J. Wiecks
The Mystery at Carlisle’s Union Hotel, by Merri Lou Schaumann
The Odd Fellows in Carlisle [International Order of Odd Fellows; Lodge No. 91; Grand United Order of Odd Fellows], by Elizabeth Rhoads
Frederick Douglass in Carlisle, by David L. Smith
Red, White and Bonded: The Surprising Truth Behind the Experiences of Some White Captives Living Among the Indians
[French and Indian War; Indian captivity narratives; Regina Hartman], by Alexandra B. Houston

Excerpts from Across the Plains by Immigrant Wagon Train, by Jeremiah Zeamer (transcription by Jane Long; edited by David Smith)
Memories of Frontier Army Life, by Anna Laura Pratt
“The Slate” Reports: Student Culture at Shippensburg State College, 1960-1969, by Paul R. Kurzawa.

Move Over, Molly Pitcher!, by Stanley Miller
The Transformation of the Shippensburg Public Library Building, by John P. Bland
Kaufman’s Station at the Village of Boiling Springs, by Richard L. Tritt
Book Review:
Jenkins, The Real All Americans: The Team that Changed A Game, A People, A Nation, reviewed by Barbara Landis.

Richard C. and Paul C. Reed Architectural Collection, by Kristen Otto.
Churchtown Perspectives – 1875, by Merri Lou Schaumann
The Cow Pens, by Janet Taylor
Basket Ball – Carlisle Indians Triumphant, by John P. Bland
Book Review:
Fear-Segal, White Man’s Club: Schools Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation, reviewed by Cary C. Collings.

Great Uncertainty: Pennsylvania’s Defensive Measures in 1756, by Ben Scharff
Cumberland County Goes to War: General Forbes’ Campaign in 1758, by Tad W. Miller
Pennsylvania’s Provincial Soldiers in 1759: Insights from “The Orderly Book of Captain Hamilton’s Company,” by Carla Christiansen.

History of Ralph Ray Watts, World War I, United States Army, as told to Laura Mae Wakefield Watts, edited by Randy Watts
The Sadler/Levinson Curtilage, by Mark W. Podvia
Shippensburg’s Locust Grove Cemetery: A Window on Two Centuries of Cumberland County’s African-American History, by Steven B. Burg
Cumberland County’s Connection to John Brown’s Raid at Harpers Ferry, by Joseph D. Cress
Cumberland County Government and Court Records, by Barbara Bartos

A Soldiers Letters, by Jane Myers Seller
Ghost Rider: Eugene Robert Orth of USS Houston, by John P. Bland
Insolvent Debtor Petitions of Cumberland County, by Barbara Bartos
Cumberland County Fugitive Slave Cases, by Lindsay Houpt-Varner
The Lost Cemetery: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, by Beverly Bone
Cumberland County Government Records Series at CCHS: Commissioners Paper Series (as of 30 June 2010), by Barbara Bartos
Book Review: Schaumann, Plank Bottom Chairs and Chairmakers: South Central Pennsylvania 1800-1880, reviewed by Karl Pass.

Captain William E. Miller, A Worthy Citizen and a Gallant Soldier, by Charlie Bender
Cumberland County Troops in the American Civil War, by Randy Watts
U.S. Colored Troops from Cumberland County buried in the Union Cemetery, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, by Stephanie Girard
Civil War Board of Relief of Cumberland County, by Katie Kitner
Union Fire Company and the Civil War, by Randy Watts
Focus on the Collection, by Cara Holtry Curtis, Mary March, and Richard Tritt
Cumberland County Government Records – Cumberland County Poor House, by Barbara Bartos
BOOK REVIEW: Keegan, The American Civil War: A Military History, reviewed by Daniel J. Heisey

An “Inflexible Patriot”: Major James Armstrong Wilson and the Home He left Behind, by Jessica Sheets.
“Arsenic in the Tea,” Nisbet Wrote, by Daniel J. Heisey
“Insulting Marks of Distinction”: The Case of the Black Cockade and the Court Martial, by Derek Weis
Insolvency and the War of 1812, by Steven B. Hatton
The Mystery of the Unburned Mansion, The loss of the Ege “Big House” and Other Fires at Pine Grove Furnace and
Laurel Forge, by André Weltman
Indian School Fire Brigade, by Randy Watts
The North End A’s, by Paul D. Hoch
Cumberland County Government Records Update, by Barbara Bartos

William Petrikin: Anti-Federalist Scourge, by Wayne L. Trotta
William Petrikin “Ardent Love of Liberty”, by Gerard Fox
Jacob Fought of Carlisle, Pennsylvania and his Associates, by Stephen B. Hatton
Battle of Papertown, April 23, 1861, by Randy Watts
Civil War Troop Movements at Pine Grove Furnace, by Andre Weltman
Fitzhugh Lee: Reconciling North and South in Carlisle, PA, by Rachael Zuch
Corporal Jesse G. Thompson G.A.R. Post 440, by Janet L. Bell
Marianne Moore, Suffrage and Celibacy, by Daniel J. Heisey
Focus on the Collections, by Peggy Huffman, Cara Holtry Curtis, and Richard Tritt
Cumberland County Government Records Update, by Barbara Bartos
Notable Library Acquisitions – 2013, Cara Holtry Curtis

Editor’s Introduction by David L. Smith
Samuel Postlethwaite: Trader, Patriot, Gentleman of Early Carlisle by Carla Christiansen
The Letter by Merri Lou Schaumann
A Tugboat Named Carlisle by Randy Watts
History and Geology of Shippensburg Area Caves by Charles Miller, Jr.
History of the Shiremanstown Borough School District by William Murray
Opportunity or Ornament: The Promise of Women’s Education at Irving College, 1890-1910 by John Maietta
Focus on the Collections by Richard L. Tritt, Mary D. March, and Cara Holtry Curtis
Notable Library Acquisitions – 2014 by Cara Holtry Curtis

Fire House Fires in Cumberland County, 1845 to 2015 by Randy Watts
Harold Stone of Mechanicsburg by Daniel J. Heisey
African American Kidnappings in Cumberland County: 1840-1860 by Janet Taylor
News of General Lee’s Surrender Reaches Carlisle, Pennsylvania by Marty Zimmerman
The Best Discovery of Camp Michaux: A Civilian Conservation Corps Boy Remembers Pine Grove Furnace by Vincent J. Montano
Focus on the Collections by Richard Tritt, Mary March, and Cara Curtis
Cumberland County Historical society Publications Heritage series: Water-Powered Mills of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania by Susan E. Meehan for the Publications Committee
Book Review: William Murchison, The Cost of Liberty: The Life of John Dickinson, lives of the Founders, Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2013; pp. x, 252; ISBN: 193385994-6. Hardcover, $25.00 by Daniel J. Heisey

The Violent Peak of Anti-Federalism: The Riot in Carlisle, the Motives of the Mob, and Opposition to the Constitution in Cumberland County by Daniel N. Finucane
Interpreting the Motto of Dickinson College by Daniel J. Heisey
The “Law Department” of Dickinson College by Mark W. Podvia
The Camp Near Carlisle and the Carlisle Barracks; Evolution of an Error by B. Bruce-Briggs
Cumberland County Historical Society Publications by Publications Committee
Focus on the Collections by Richard Tritt, Mary D. March, and Cara Curtis
Cumberland County Historical Society Publications Heritage series: Water-Powered Mills of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania by Susan E. Meehan for the Publications Committee
2016 Honorees

Editor’s Introduction by David L. Smith
The Boys Are Called: Carlisle Responds to the National Guard Mobilization of World War I by John Maietta
Fort Granville Road by Janet Taylor
My War by Yoshikuni Masuyama as retold by his daughter, Miyuki Hegg
The “Tractobile”: How Carlisle Almost Eclipsed Detriot as an Automotive Center by Randy Watts
Cumberland County Historical Society Publications by Publications Committee
Focus on the Collections by Richard L. Tritt, Mary D. March, and Cara Holtry Curtis
Preservation Efforts in Cumberland County by Jason Illari
2016 Society Honorees

Editor’s Introduction by David L. Smith
U-Boat Prisoners at the Furnace by John P. Bland
A First Sergeant’s Memories of Camp Michaux: The Pine Grove Furnace Prisoner of War Camp by Vincent J. Montano
Mechanicsburg Schools Go to War by William J. Murray
New Cumberland County Historical Society Publication
Focus on the Collections by Richard L. Tritt, Cara Holtry Curtis, and Rachael Zuch

Editor’s Introduction by David L. Smith
The Military Family of John Armstrong by B. Bruce-Briggs
Crawford-Duncan – The Ampersand Man by Janet Taylor
The Panic of 1819 in Cumberland County by Stephen B. Hatton
The One-Room Schoolhouses of the Mechanicsburg Area by William Murray
Private Ernest A. Martin, A Biography by Alison Dundore
New Cumberland County Historical Society Publication
Focus on the Collections by Richard L. Tritt, Cara Holtry Curtis, and Mary D. March

Editor’s Introduction by David L. Smith
Scrapbook History by Justin Burkett
Naming Carlisle High School’s McGowan Building by Fred Baldwin
James Talhelm 1850-1921: The Story of an Engineer by Kevin Talhelm
The Origin and History of Camp Michaux’s Prisoner of War Photographs: A New Discovery by Vincent J. Montano
Shootout in the Carlisle Square: The Riot of 1867 by Rachael Zuch
CCHS New Publications by David Smith
Book Review: Life Along the Big Spring by Susan E. Meehan by Randy Watts
Preservation in Cumberland County by Lindsay Varner
2020 Cumberland County Historical Society Honorees

Editor’s Introduction by David L. Smith
Susan Ritner’s Commonplace Book: Poetry of the Heart by Frances M. Carothers Devlin
Mrs. Rebecca Ann Smith by Richard Tritt
Sarah A. Todd by Randy Watts
Cora Belle Hawk Thompson: Teacher, Adventurer, Pioneer by Kevin Talhelm
Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire: Trials and Tribulations of Cumberland County’s First Female Commissioner by David H. Peiffer
2021 Cumberland County Historical Society Honorees