Carlisle Celebrates Bastille Day
The French Revolution was celebrated in Carlisle on July 14, 1792. The following description of the event appeared in the July 18 issue of The Carlisle Gazette and the Western Repository of Knowledge.
Schaumann, Merri Lou
The “Carlisle Coffee Car” 10 North Pitt Street
Although the Gulf Gas Station in this 1951 photo is the dominant feature of the picture, if you look to the right of the back of the station, you can see several cars parked by a restaurant. That restaurant, now called Pitt Street Station, is the latest eatery on that spot since the first one opened in 1929.
Carlisle man’s painting exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art
In 1932, New York’s Museum of Modern Art held an exhibit titled “American Folk Art of the Common Man in America 1750-1900.” One of the paintings in the exhibit was titled “
Carlisle Springs Hotel Destroyed by Fire in 1869
The healthy sulphur spring waters and the cooling breezes from the North Mountain made Carlisle Springs a favored summer vacation spot for families from Philadelphia and Baltimore. In 1852, Morris Owen and Anson P.
Carlisle the “Athens of Pennsylvania,” or Not
In 1844, a Mr. Richards of Reading, Berks County Pennsylvania, having heard from some residents of Reading that Carlisle was called the “Athens of Pennsylvania,” he decided to visit it and see for himself. When he returned to Reading his impressions of Carlisle were published in the April 17, 1844, edition of the “Reading Journal.” The “Carlisle Weekly Herald” published it for “the curiosity of its readers” in the April 24, 1844, edition of the newspaper.
Carlisle's Black Rock
In 1818, Jacob Baughman of Carlisle drew a map of Carlisle noting the locations of churches, graveyards, public buildings, still houses, tanneries, and the names by which each of the borough’s street corners were known.1 His map shows “Black Rock” on the north west corner of Main and W
Carlisle’s Ice Skating Park: 1870s
Ice skating parks were very popular in the United States from the 1860s to the 1890s. They were not just places to skate, but places to socialize during the dark days of winter. In 1870, Mrs.
Carlisle’s Irvine Row - The 19th Century
Fronting on Church Avenue, adjoining St. John’s Episcopal Church on the Square, the eight brick houses that make up Carlisle’s Irvine Row are the rare survivors of an intact nineteenth-century streetscape. They stand on Lot #171 in the original plan of Carlisle.
Carlisle’s Penrose Sisters Lead Area Anti-Suffrage Movement
While people are familiar with the Suffragist movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries that sought to gain equal rights for women, it is hard for us today to imagine that there were women who fought against this.
Thomas Carothers, Tavernkeeper (1770-1851)
In 1805, Thomas Carothers purchased the large stone house on the north west corner of Carlisle’s Square and opened the “Sign of Columbus” tavern.1 The house had belonged to merchant John Montgomery, and it was there that President George Washington hosted a dinner for Governor Thomas M