Join local genealogist, Deborah Sweaney, and CCHS Librarian, Cara Curtis, to learn more about genealogy.  Do you have questions or just need a little guidance with your research?  Come to Deborah and Car’s workshop for the help you need.   Cost: $20/member; $35/nonmember

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Janet will lead a trip through Sherman’s Valley to Centre Church.  We will have time to explore, visit the spring, and admire old tombstones in the cemetery.  We will see several historic homes in the area, discuss the connections between the Hench and Butcher families, as well as Underground Railroad activity in the Centre-Kistler area. […]

Join CCHS for our annual “lot” party at 21 N. Pitt Street.  This year’s theme is the “1960s.”  We will offer 60s games, 60s villain dunk tank, “Dancing Through the Ages with Frank Hancock, including the 1960s” in Todd Hall & historically priced food and root beer floats.  No rsvp required!

Open air painting and instruction at the Society’s historic Two Mile House and gardens. A boxed lunch will be provided by CCHS.   Cost: $75/member, $85/non-member  

Our annual golf fundraiser is held at Cumberland Golf Club, 2395 Ritner Hwy, Carlisle, PA 17015.  2016's theme will be the history of health care in Cumberland County. The CCHS annual golf classic supports county-wide Society educational programming, exhibits and outreach and the Society’s new scholarships and awards grant program.  Starting in 2017, CCHS will […]