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Cumberland County History, our award-winning journal, has been published regularly by CCHS for over 25 years. In 1984, with the publication of our very first journal, CCHS has been successful in promoting a wider interest in local history. We strive to maintain the highest level of historical accuracy, thereby providing valuable information to historians and researchers. The journal covers not only the history and culture of
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Journal Price List: 1 Journal $7.00 Add $3.50 per Journal for shipping and handling. Please submit your order on our Printable Order Form (pdf) listing Date(s), Volume(s) and Number(s). SUMMER 1985, VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1: 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 What’s in a Name: The Mechanics of Mechanicsburg: The Naming of a SUMMER 1986, VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1: The Great Grangers' Picnic Exhibition, Williams Grove, 1873-1916, by Warren J. Gates Crime and its Resolution in 18th " Pre-1858 Architecture in Longsdorf Originals [Longsdorf family; early local woman doctor], by Robert G. Smith What’s in a Name: Hogestown WINTER 1986, VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2: Ephraim Blaine [Revolutionary War], by Willis Kocher The United Methodist Home for Children at Shiremanstown, by Martha L. Detweiler The 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 SUMMER 1988, VOLUME 5, NUMBER 1: Robert Lowry Sibbett (1826-1898): A Medical Reformer, by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. Household Inventories, Arsenic in the Leaven [18th century Carothers family murders], by Mary Anne Morefield Portfolio of Artistic Genius: The Architecture of James W. Minick, by What’s in a Name: Lemoyne SUMMER 1989, VOLUME 6, NUMBER 1: 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 [ 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 WINTER 1989, VOLUME 6, NUMBER 2: 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 A Reminiscence: Free Wood at Forge Hill, by Robert J. Smith SUMMER 1990, VOLUME 7, NUMBER 1: John Harris, Jr.: Founder of William Maclay and the Fight for the National Capital [ Archibald McAllister at Reminiscences, by Charles R. Boak WINTER 1990, VOLUME 7, NUMBER 2: Archibald Loudon [early local printer, active 1804-1815] of Southern Sentiments: A Look at Attitudes of Civil War Soldiers [excerpts from letters of Lucy Winston: Determination in a Dress [woman in politics in 1930s], by Lynn Farner From What's in a Name: Enola SUMMER 1991, VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1: 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 A Corner of What's in a Name: Shiremanstown WINTER 1991, VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2: 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 [ What’s in a Name: Churchtown SUMMER 1992, VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1: Politics, Corruption and Ethnic Rivalry in Art from the President's House: A Portrait of John McClintock [anti-slavery State Commission Lists Forty-Eight Historical Markers in County, by the Editor What's in a Name: WINTER 1992, VOLUME 9, NUMBER 2: 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 What's in a Name: New SUMMER 1993, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 1: 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 “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] Forty Four in Forty-Three: To War [enlistment of 44 What's in a Name: Shepherdstown WINTER 1993, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2: We the People Identified: From Carlisle and Lenore Embick Flower [ What's in a Name: Hickorytown INDEX to Journal Volumes VI through X SUMMER 1994, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1: The Ancient and Important Walnut Bottom Path-Road [ Justice James Wilson of The Capitol and the College: the Latrobe Connection [Benjamin Latrobe, architect of Sarah's Story [Deeter family, Mechanicsburg], by Emily Deeter WINTER 1994, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2: My Friend Mary Wheeler King (1901-1992) [Two Mile House; King and McLain families], by Ann Kramer Hoffer Pilots and Airports of The Greek Community of What's in a Name: White Hill SUMMER 1995, VOLUME 12, NUMBER 1: William McCormick’s Estate Papers, 1805, by Willis L. Shirk, Jr. A Traveler in What's in a Name: Carlisle Springs WINTER 1995, VOLUME 12, NUMBER 2: A Musical Romance: Tempest and Cornman [Nellie Clayton Cornman (1868-1958) and Robert Tempest (1868-1955), Some Benefactors of St. Patrick's Church, by Terry L. Nickey The Mechanicsburg Legend of 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 SUMMER 1996, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 1: Historical Work of Milton Embick Flower, by the Editor The Spanish Flu in Iron Workers in The Carlisle Deluge, 1779 [“Pumpkin Flood” debris flow], by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. Mechanicsburg’s Soldiers and A Traveler in SUMMER 1997, VOLUME 14, NUMBER 1: 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, Transportation, Competition, and the Growth of a Town: Carlisle, 1750-1860 [ The Artificial Swan, The Elephant, and 100 Educated Canaries: Public Performances in 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 WINTER 1997, VOLUME 14, NUMBER 2: 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 SUMMER 1998, VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1: "Americans Shall Rule The Invasion: Rebel Occupancy of The Deterioration of the Seminary Rule System at Physical Remains of the Confederate Invasion of 1863, by James D. Flower WINTER 1998, VOLUME 15, NUMBER 2: "We're Not in the Cumberland Valley Any More, Toto!” The Great Migration to The Third Coming to 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 SUMMER 1999, VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1: Walter Harrison Hitchler [Dean of A Past Standing Outside Time: The Election of 1912 in John Lindner [Lindner Shoe Company; Lindner Greenhouses; Lindner Park; Forest Hills; Camp Lindner; Lindner vs. Kronenberg], by Daniel J. Heisey WINTER 1999, VOLUME 16, NUMBER 2: 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 John C. Lesher: A SUMMER 2000, VOLUME 17, NUMBER 1: 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 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. WINTER 2000, VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2: 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 SUMMER 2001, VOLUME 18, NUMBER 1: Crimes and Punishment in The Allen and Early Proverbs from Trains and Trolleys in Old WINTER 2001, VOLUME 18, NUMBER 2: History of the Callapatschink / Yellow Breeches Creek, by Robert D. Rowland A Train Ride through A Traveler in the County, 1840 [travel narrative, James Silk Buckingham] Book Review: Cumberland Justice: Legal Practice in SUMMER 2002, VOLUME 19, NUMBER 1: James W. Sullivan, 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 Book Review: Twentieth Century Thoughts. WINTER 2002, VOLUME 19, NUMBER 2: Weakley Family Black Sheep: Why James Geddes Weakley was Disowned, by B. J. Alderman Wilhelm Schimmel: 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 SUMMER/WINTER 2003, VOLUME 20, NUMBERS 1 & 2: 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, The Women of Carlisle’s 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 The SUMMER 2004, VOLUME 21, NUMBER 1: Jacob Fought, The Works of Henry Ganss [St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, The Estate of Peter Helbron [detailed estate inventory listing, 1816], by Daniel J. Heisey Ambush at Willis Church [Civil War; Vanderbilt family], by BJ Alderman Return of a Native: Holmead Phillips [American painter, 1889-1975] Returns to Canals, Railroads, Etahdleuh Doanmoe: From Prisoner to Missionary [Ft. Marion Indian prisoners; Kiowa; WINTER 2004, VOLUME 21, NUMBER 2: Robert James Coffey (1839-1910): An Unsung Pennsylvanian Soldier and Writer [Civil War; 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 The Topless Bathing Suit Reconsidered [Carlisle Trust Company; Christmas Savings Club; Merkel Landis, 1875-1960], by Daniel J. Heisey SUMMER/WINTER 2005, VOLUME 22, NUMBERS 1 & 2: The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in The Mystery at The Odd Fellows in Frederick Douglass in Red, White and Bonded: The Surprising Truth Behind the Experiences of Some White Captives Living Among the Indians SUMMER/WINTER 2006, VOLUME 23, NUMBERS 1 & 2: 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. SUMMER 2007, VOLUME 24, NUMBER 1: Move Over, Molly Pitcher!, by The Transformation of the Kaufman’s Station at the Village of Boiling Springs, by Richard L. Tritt Book Review: WINTER 2007, VOLUME 24, NUMBER 2: 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 – Book Review: SUMMER/WINTER 2008, VOLUME 25, NUMBER 1 & 2: Great Uncertainty: 2009, VOLUME 26: 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 2010, Volume 27: A Soldiers Letters, by Jane Myers Seller Ghost Rider: Eugene Robert Orth of USS Houston, by John P. Bland Insolvent Debtor Petitions of The Lost Cemetery: Book Review: Schaumann, Plank Bottom Chairs and Chairmakers: South Central Pennsylvania 1800-1880, reviewed by Karl Pass.
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What's in a Name: Wormleysburg
Geronimo and Carlisle [Apache Chief’s visit to
Bishop Henry Heisey Brubaker, Missionary from Mechanicsburg, by Daniel J. Heisey
[French and Indian War; Indian captivity narratives; Regina Hartman], by Alexandra B. Houston
Jenkins, The Real All Americans: The Team that Changed A Game, A People, A Nation, reviewed by Barbara Landis.
Fear-Segal, White Man’s Club: Schools Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation, reviewed by Cary C. Collings.
Early 19th century newspapers
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