From Personal Playground to Public Treasure
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 […]
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Talks and Presentations
History and Hops
Burd's Nest Brewing Company 19 N Hanover St, Carlisle, PA, United StatesLindsay Varner will discuss the Mt. Tabor AME Zion Church & Cemetery in Mt. Holly Springs and the on-going preservation work on the site.
100 Years of Enola with Jim Leonard
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. […]
100 years of Women’s Suffrage
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 […]