Carlisle Public Square

Before the erection of Cumberland County - 1750 - this site was the intersection of the Indian trail leading from mountain to mountain across Groghan's Gap westward.

With the laying out of Carlisle in 1751 the square became the center of ...

The Battle of Iron Works Hill

December 23, 1776

A decisive skirmish in the

Revolutionary War.

Colonel Samuel Griffin’s troops were entrenched at this site. They decoyed Colonel (Count) Kurt von Donop’s Hessian soldiers away from Bordentown thus reducing the enemy forces defending Trenton and assuring victory by General ...

General Moseley Baker

Commanded Co. D., First Regiment of Texas Volunteers at San Jacinto. A member of 1st and 3rd Congresses of the Republic and later a Brigadier General of Militia. Born in Virginia Sept. 20, 1802. Died in Houston, Texas Nov. 4, ...

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson

1842-1932

“America’s Civil War Joan of Arc”

In January of 1864, President Lincoln invited Anna to address Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, to rally support for the Union cause and the fight aganist slavery.

Anna devoted the rest of ...

Col. Robert Magaw

Robert Magaw, one of Carlisle's principal lawyers prior to the Revolution, lived here. Magaw joined Col. William Thompson's regiment in June 1775 as a Major. After service in Boston in 1776 he was promoted to Colonel in the 5th PA ...

Bethany Lutheran Church

Early settlers in Fredericksburg worshiped together in a community church, the Vereins Kirche. On March 27, 1887, the Rev. John Heinzelmann and about 80 families organized a separate congregation known as Die Evangelische Kirche (The Evangelical church). Early worship services ...

Rochambeau’s Encampment

1781 – 1782

After crossing the Hudson,

Commander-in-chief of the

French army in America,

General Jean-Baptiste

Rochambeau, encamped here

with his 5000 troops en route

from Newport, R.I. to

Virginia. Joining with Gen.

Washington, the two armies

hurried to Yorktown and

forced the surrender of the

besieged British General

Cornwallis October 19, 1781.

This ...

Silas Baptist Church

1 mile west

Organized by 20 members of the Cooper's Run Church in 1800, with the help of Ambrose Dudley, George Eve and Augustine Eastin. They built at this site on land given, 1798, by Charles Smith, Sr. The log structure ...

China Burma India Veteran's Memorial

December 1941 - March 1946

Dedicated in honor of those men and women who served their country in the pursuit of freedom for all mankind

Marker is at the intersection of Hanover Street (Pennsylvania Route 34) and High Street (U.S. 11), on ...

The Vermont Brigade

(Front):

In these woods, during the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5 and 6, 1864, Vermont's "Old Brigade" suffered 1,234 casualties while defending the Brock Road and Orange Plank Road intersection.

(Back):

"The flag of each regiment, though pierced and tattered, still ...