Molly Pitcher Stitchers (MPS), in co-operation with the Cumberland County Historical Society (CCHS), will provide a children's class on Saturday, February 22, 2020. The stitches include cross-stitch, satin stitch, back stitch, and outline stitch. This program will be taught from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon at The History on High Shop. Children ages 7 […]
Visit our table at the Hamilton Elementary School during Hope Station's Black History Festival. Hamilton Elementary is located at: 735 Clay St, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013
Help CPARC raise awareness about Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Awareness month. Join CPARC for a scavenger hunt at the Cumberland County Historical Society. Participants from the CPARC Community Fusion day program are eager to meet you and search for clues in the museum! CPARC staff and individuals love doing the scavenger hunts that the […]
TOUR BOOKED Visit the museum and their special exhibition Cost of Revolution: The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier. The tour will leave Two Mile House at 9:00am. Participants will have time to explore Historic Philadelphia and have lunch on their own before touring the Museum. Dinner is arrainged at the Black Powder Tavern […]
Join Sharon Filipovich for a tour of the historic Two Mile House. Visitors will hear the history of the house and learn about current uses of the property by CCHS. […]
Slavery in the North Book Group over Zoom. Please note that new registrants will need to provide a copy of the book for themselves.
Tour Full Matthew March, Education Curator, will lead this walking tour that will focus on the role of abolitionists and freedom seekers in Boiling Springs. The historic village was the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]