Index of Cumberland County Birth, Wedding, Divorce & Obituary Newspaper Records - 2000
This index runs from January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2000.
Cooke Township
Index of Cumberland County Birth, Wedding, Divorce & Obituary Newspaper Records - 2001
This index runs from January 1, 2001 through December 31, 2001.
Index of Cumberland County Birth, Wedding, Divorce & Obituary Newspaper Records - 2002
This index runs from January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002.
Index of Cumberland County Birth, Wedding, Divorce & Obituary Newspaper Records - 2003
This index runs from January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003.
Index of The Evening Sentinel, Carlisle, Pennsylvania - December 11, 1881 to April 2, 1885
This index covers the periods December 11, 1881 through April 2, 1885.
Lewis the Robber
From a likely fictional confession written a day before his death, Pennsylvania’s Robin Hood tells the story of David Lewis, better known as Lewis the Robber from his birth on Hanover Street in Carlisle on March 4, 1790 to his capture and eventual death in jail in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania on July
Richard Martin (1799-1869): Pine Grove Furnace Miller
Richard Martin’s son, Reverend Joseph Martin, wrote that his father’s daily book was the English Bible. “He read widely and of the best. He was a great admirer of Shakespeare and could recite passages by the page.
“My War” by Yoshikuni Masuyama as retold by his daughter, Miyuki Hegg
Toward the end of WWII, the Pine Grove Furnace POW Interrogation Camp was used to house Japanese prisoners. One of those prisoners, Yoshikuni Masuyama, wrote a memoir of of his war time experiences after the war. This was later transcribed by his wife, Fumie Masuyama. Subsequently, the memoir was retold in English by his daughter Miyuki Hegg.
The National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County
The National Register of Historic Places was organized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
The Origin and History of Camp Michaux’s Prisoner of War Photographs: A New Discovery
The photographs in the collection at the Cumberland County Historical Society (CCHS) that document the history of the Pine Grove Furnace Prisoner of War Camp at Camp Michaux during the Second World War come from several sources. The primary source is from a collection originally owned by Major Laurence Thomas, the camp’s commander that were taken by the Army Signal Corp. This collection contains pictures of German and Japanese POWs, usually working around the camp or in candid poses and photos of the camp during various seasons of the year.