Sleighing parties to Cumberland County hotels and private houses were managed by livery stable owners who provided sleighs, horses, drivers, blankets, robes, and foot warmers to keep the sleigh’s occupants warm as the horses carried them along wintry roads.
“Introduction of Gas!” proclaimed the Carlisle Herald in its June 4, 1856, edition, while a headline in the June 5, 1856, edition of the American Volunteer reported:
The Carlisle Herald and the American Volunteer were the two major newspapers in Carlisle for most of the nineteenth century. The Carlisle Herald was the organ of the Republicans, and the American Volunteer was the organ of the Democrats.
Carlisle father and son die of the same disease on the same day of the week in the same building four years apart.
The scene of the murder was the “Sign of the Indian Queen” tavern on Carlisle’s West High Street. The victim was tavernkeeper Robert Grayson. Grayson had been a tavernkeeper in between positions as the county jailer in the 1790s and High Sheriff from 1801-1804.
Interview of Thomas McCurdy for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Bank. McCurdy discusses his role in assisting to contain the fire resulting from the 1963 derailment at Brandtsville as well as other fires.
For several days in June 1890 gipsy [sic] women had been annoying many of Carlisle’s citizens by their persistent begging. On Sunday afternoon, June 8, they entered the [yard] adjoining the Thompson house and found Andrew Thompson playing in the yard. “Mrs.
On May 30, 1757, Col. John Stanwix arrived in Carlisle with five companies of the Royal American Regiment's first battalion to begin constructing entrenchments.
The years from 1850 to 1910 were the height of the carriage era in the United States.
There are many theories about the origins of Valentine’s Day. The Romans celebrated a festival called Lupercalia in honor of the gods of love in mid-February. In 496 the Pope declared that the death of St. Valentine should be celebrated on February 14.