Tour Full David Smith will lead the popular Camp Michaux walking tour of the old Bunker Hill Farm; Pine Grove Furnace CCC Camp; Pine Grove Furnace POW Interrogation Camp; and the United Church of Christ & United Presbyterian Church Camp. Meet at the furnace in Pine Grove State Park. Cost: $10/member; $15/nonmember; $5/school-age-children
Reception for the Artifacts Speak! Exhibit. Cumberland County collections share their story in the new exhibit “Artifacts Speak”. With help from community organizations in Cumberland County, CCHS shines a spotlight on how seemingly normal items can have a fascinating story. Sponsored in honor of John and MaryPat Wentzel by the Wentzel Family RSVP below.
Registration Closed No more wishing you could do what the kids do! For the first time, CCHS will offer a one-day summer camp for adults. Come learn how to make a fire with flint and steel and use that fire to cook lunch. Other skills stations to include woodworking, fabric arts, military drilling, and leather […]
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 […]
Join CCHS for the Cumberland Co. Preservation Virtual Roundtable. This month's meeting will feature an update from a CCHS summer intern who conducted a preservation survey among municipalities, and members of the Sheepford Road Bridge group working to save their metal truss bridge in Upper Allen Township. To join please register with the event link. […]
Join us for a modified 2020 McLain Bash at the Two Mile House on August 28 - 29th! 2020's Bash will be a socially distant whisky tasting. Small groups of 6 will get 2-hours at the Two Mile House with a private whisky tasting of 4 single malt Scotch whiskies. Guests will get a 5th […]
Book Group, Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of the Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors by Denise K. Lajimodiere Join us as we read Denise Lajimodiere’s latest book Stringing Rosaries which explores Indian boarding school survivors’ stories. The book “presents a brief history of the boarding school programs for Indigenous […]
Architectural historian, Jerry Clouse will give a virtual presentation on the barns of Perry County. It is based on the year-long research he conducted for the June 2019 tour which he led for the Historic Barn & Farm Foundation (HBFF) of Pennsylvania. HBFF meets and tours a different county in the state each year. The […]
Register at the link below to donate blood to the American Red Cross: https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?order=DATE&range=10&zipSponsor=CCHS
Help us tidy the Two Mile House before we start the 2021 rental season! Work will take place in the gardens and inside the house.