KINGS GAP ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA November 16, 2019 9:00 AM $8 - Member Tickets (CCHS and Friends of Kings Gap Members) $12 - Non-Member Tickets FROM PERSONAL PLAYGROUND TO PUBLIC TREASURE Sponsored by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and The Cumberland County Historical Society Welcome and Introductions. Ron Turo, Esquire […]
Lindsay Varner will discuss the Mt. Tabor AME Zion Church & Cemetery in Mt. Holly Springs and the on-going preservation work on the site.
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. […]
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 […]
The Cumberland County Historical Society and the Penn State Master Gardeners are cooperating in a joint effort to celebrate history and horticulture with a program highlighting both. On August 2 at 5:30PM on the ground of the Two Mile House pollinator garden they will be presenting a program Planting in the Shade. The featured speaker […]
“Architecture is about Ideas: Grid, Sectional Space, Detail and Drawing” This talk examines four important topics of architectural design and thought through the prism of a number recently completed projects and designs by the architect, John Reed. The title references a welcoming lecture by the Architecture School’s Chairman in Mr. Reed’s freshman year in college. […]
EVENT FULL Join CCHS at the Carlisle Theatre for the premiere of the film Home from School: The Children of Carlisle. Panel discussion to follow. Home From School - Official Trailer from Caldera Productions on Vimeo. About the film: In 2017 a delegation of Northern Arapaho tribal members traveled from Wyoming to Pennsylvania to […]
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts, Dickinson College Campus and community scholars will introduce audiences to narratives of African American experience often left out of Carlisle’s more well-known histories. After the panel discussion, audiences are invited to participate in a collaborative community art project designed to highlight these stories. This program is co-sponsored […]
Lecture by Randy Watts. This is a story of a group of men from Cumberland County who enlisted for military service in April 1861, just weeks after the Civil War started. The program will trace their progression from Camp Wayne in West Chester to their capture at the Wilderness in May 1864. It is a […]
Join Tucker Foltz (Rokeby Museum Education Programs Manager) and Matthew March (Education Director at Cumberland County Historical Society) for a discussion on two very different sites that operated as part of the Underground Railroad. Register Here