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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 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.
 
 

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 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
 
 

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 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
 
 

SUMMER 1988, VOLUME 5, NUMBER 1:

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
 
 

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 [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
 
 

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 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
 
 

SUMMER 1990, VOLUME 7, NUMBER 1:

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
 
 

WINTER 1990, VOLUME 7, NUMBER 2:

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
 
 

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 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
 
 

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 [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
 
 

SUMMER 1992, VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1:

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
 
 

WINTER 1992, VOLUME 9, NUMBER 2:

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
 
 

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 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
 
 

WINTER 1993, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2:

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
 
 

SUMMER 1994, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1:

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
 
 

WINTER 1994, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2:
 

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
 
 

SUMMER 1995, VOLUME 12, NUMBER 1:

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
 
 

WINTER 1995, VOLUME 12, NUMBER 2:

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
 
 

SUMMER 1996, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 1:

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)]
 
 

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, 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
 
 

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 Gettysburg, 1863; George Kline’s book order, 1796]
 
 

SUMMER 1998, VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1:

"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
 
 

WINTER 1998, VOLUME 15, NUMBER 2:

"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; see CCHS Publications list for availability of this title]
 
 

SUMMER 1999, VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1:

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
 
 

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

Carlisle Barracks, 1854-1855, by Richard J.  Coyer

John C. Lesher: A Carlisle Photographer, by Martha L. Berg
 
 

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 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.
 
 

WINTER 2000, VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2:

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
 
 

SUMMER 2001, VOLUME 18, NUMBER 1:

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
 
 

WINTER 2001, VOLUME 18, NUMBER 2:

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
 
 

SUMMER 2002, VOLUME 19, NUMBER 1:

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]
 
 

WINTER 2002, VOLUME 19, NUMBER 2:

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
 

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, 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
 
 

SUMMER 2004, VOLUME 21, NUMBER 1:

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
 
 

WINTER 2004, VOLUME 21, NUMBER 2:

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
 
 

SUMMER/WINTER 2005, VOLUME 22, NUMBERS 1 & 2:

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