The publications program, a hallmark of activity, provides a forum for research on county history. The Society publishes four newsletters, two semi-annual journals, exhibit brochures, monographs and the popular Heritage Series which are hard cover, richly illustrated books on local history. 
 

• Publications list and prices 
• Cumberland County History Journal 
• Cumberland County History Journal Inventory Currently Available for Purchase 
• Printable order form for publications
• Newsletter 

   The Historical Society will print genealogical queries in the quarterly membership newsletter. Entries are limited to two per sender per issue and are $3.00 per query for members and $7.00 for non-members. Payment must be included with the query. Include your name and address. Limit is 40 words. Items that do not follow these instructions will not be printed. Queries will be printed as space permits. 

This 8 ½” x 11” soft cover book contains black and white photographs and illustrations and information from early estate inventories.  This book tells the story of how the people who settled Cumberland County, Pennsylvania dressed and how they furnished their homes with textiles. You can visit History on High – The Shop or send the handy order form below to History on High The Shop, 33 W. High Street, Carlisle PA  17013.

The Cumberland County Historical Society announces the publication of a series showing connected drafts of early land transactions with Cumberland county and the Penn family. This includes "warrents," "surveys," "Blunston Licenses," and "patents." Each booklet includes a 22 x 30 inch map showing the 18th century land holdings in relation to currently recognizable and identifiable places. 

Volumes for sale:
Vol 1 Shippensburg Quadrangle, Cumberland and Franklin Counties 
Vol 2. Newburg Quadrangle, Cumberland, Perry, and Franklin Counties 
Vol 3. Newville Quadrangle, Cumberland County 
Vol 4. Walnut Bottom Quadrangle, Cumberland County 
Vol 5.  Plainfield, Cumberland County 
Vol 6. Andersonburg (Doubling Gap) & Landisburg (McClure's Gap), Cumberland County
Vol 7. Dickinson Quadrangle, Cumberland and Adams Counties 
Vol 8. Caledonia Park, Cumberland, Franklin and Adams Counties
Vol 9. Scotland, Franklin County
Vol 10. Chambersburg, Franklin County
Vol 11. Roxbury, Franklin County
Vol 12.  Carlisle, Cumberland County
Vol 13. Waynesboro and Southern Washington Twp, Franklin County 
Vol 14. Shermans Dale and Wertzville, Cumberland and Perry Counties
Vol 15. Greencastle and Stateline, Franklin County
Vol 16. Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland, Adams, and York Counties
Vol 17. South Mountain (Iron Springs) and Blue Ridge Summit, Franklin County
Vol 18. Mechanicsburg and White Rocks (Dillsburg), Cumberland and York Counties
Vol 19. Williamson and Mason-Dixon, Franklin County
Vol 20. The West Shore (Harrisburg West, Lemoyne, Steelton)
Vol 21 - Saint Thomas, Franklin County
Vol 22. Mercersburg & Kaisesville (Clear Spring), Franklin County

Click here to download the First Family books name index in pdf form

Click here to download the key to Quadrangle abbreviationsin pdf form

In the Second World War, the U. S. War Department created three clandestine facilities where Army and Navy intelligence officers interrogated enemy prisoners of war.  Located in the remote Pennsylvania woods just eighty miles north of Washington, D.C., Pine Grove Furnace Prisoner of War Interrogation Camp was the third and final covert site.  Begun specifically to cross-examine captured German submarine sailors, the camp’s mission quickly changed to include questioning Axis soldiers after the Allied victory in its North African campaign.

The camp evolved from an abandoned farm with links to the area’s eighteenth-and nineteenth-century iron industry and a deactivated Civilian Conservation Corps camp into this secret intelligence-gathering site.  With the war over, the place transformed into a Christian church camp where hundreds of youth stayed in the former prisoner’s barracks, took meals in the old Staff Mess Hall, and enjoyed prisoner artwork left behind on the walls of the guards’ Recreation Hall.  During its thirty-month existence, perhaps 2,500 German and Japanese prisoners passed through this place known in unclassified sources only as the “3300th Service Unit.”
 
 

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  PA Sales Tax        1.19                1.32 PA Sales Tax
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Note:  There is no PA Sales Tax if shipped out of state.

A copy of the official registration and financial information may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within PA, 1-800-732-0999.  Registration does not imply endorsement.

New! Now for sale in the CCHS Museum Shop Cemeteries of Cumberland County by Bob Davidson.  This softbound book contains maps and directions to every known cemetery in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.  This book also describes which township or borough the cemetery is located within Cumberland County.  Cost of this book is $15.00 plus sales tax if purchased at the CCHS Museum Shop.  Individuals may order the book 
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(Please add $4.00 shipping and handling) Click here to go to the Genealogy page.