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Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA



 


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Carlisle is a borough and the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The name is locally pronounced as in British English with emphasis on the second syllable. Carlisle is located within the Cumberland Valley, a highly productive agricultural region. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 18.682; the estimated population as of 2014 was 18.916. Including suburbs in the neighboring townships, 37,695 live in the Carlisle urban cluster. Carlisle is an exurb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to the east.

Carlisle is the slightly smaller principal city of the Harrisburg?Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Cumberland, Dauphin, and Perry counties in South Central Pennsylvania. In 2010, Forbes rated Carlisle and Harrisburg the second-best place to raise a family.

The U.S. Army War College, located at the Carlisle Barracks, prepares high-level military personnel and civilians for strategic leadership responsibilities. Carlisle Barracks ranks among the oldest U.S. Army installations and the most senior military educational institution in the United States Army. Carlisle Barracks is home of the United States Army Heritage and Education Center, an archives and museum complex open to the public.

Carlisle also hosts Dickinson College and Penn State Dickinson School of Law. Ahold's U.S. headquarters are in Carlisle.

History:

American pioneer John Armstrong Sr. laid the plan for the settlement of Carlisle in 1751. He fathered John Armstrong Jr., who was born in Carlisle in 1758. Scots-Irish immigrants settled in Carlisle and farmed the Cumberland Valley. They named the settlement after its sister town of Carlisle, Cumbria, England, and even built its former jailhouse (which Cumberland County now uses as general government offices) to resemble The Citadel in Carlisle, Cumbria.

In 1757, Colonel Commandant John Stanwix—for whom Fort Stanwix in upstate New York is named—–made his headquarters in Carlisle, and was promoted to brigadier general on December 27 of that year. Stanwix had sat in Parliament as Member for Carlisle during the 1740s. Later during the French and Indian Wars, the Forbes Expedition organized in Carlisle in 1758, and Henry Bouquet organized an expedition there for Pontiac's War, the last conflict of the war, in 1763.

Carlisle served as a munitions depot during the American Revolutionary War. The depot was later developed into the United States Army War College at Carlisle Barracks. Revolutionary War legend Molly Pitcher died in the borough in 1832, and her body lies buried in the Old Public Graveyard. A hotel was built in her honor, called the Molly Pitcher Hotel; it has since been renovated to house apartments for senior citizens.

Carlisle was incorporated as a borough a few years after the war on April 13, 1782. Carlisle continued to play a part in the early development in the United States through the end of the century: In response to a planned march in favor of the United States Constitution in 1787, Anti-Federalists instigated a riot in Carlisle. A decade later, during the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, the troops of Pennsylvania and New Jersey assembled in Carlisle under the leadership of President George Washington. While in Carlisle, the president worshiped in the First Presbyterian Church at the corner of Hanover Street and High Street.

Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, developed Carlisle Grammar School in 1773 and chartered it as Dickinson College—the first new college founded in the newly recognized United States. One of the college's more famous alumni, the 15th U.S. president, James Buchanan, graduated in 1809. The Dickinson School of Law, founded in 1834 and affiliated then with Dickinson College, ranks as the fifth-oldest law school in the United States and the oldest law school in Pennsylvania.

A general borough law of 1851 (amended in 1852) authorized a burgess and a borough council to administer the government of the borough of Carlisle.

Leading up to the American Civil War, Carlisle served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. During the war, an army of the Confederate States of America, under General Fitzhugh Lee, attacked and shelled the borough during the Battle of Carlisle on July 1, 1863 as part of the Gettysburg Campaign. A cannonball dent can still be seen on one of the columns of the historic county courthouse.

United States Army Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt founded Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1879 as the first federally supported school for American Indians off a reservation. The United States government maintained the school, housed at Carlisle Barracks as an experiment in educating Native Americans and teaching them to reject tribal culture and to adapt to white society. Pratt retired from the Army in 1903 and from supervising the school as its superintendent in 1904. Athletic hero Jim Thorpe entered the school in 1907 and joined its football team under coach Glenn "Pop" Warner in 1908. Playing halfback, Jim Thorpe led the team to startling upset victories over powerhouses Harvard, Army, and the University of Pennsylvania in 1911–12, bringing nationwide attention to the school. Marianne Moore taught there c. 1910. Carlisle Indian School closed in 1918.

The Dickinson School of Law ended its affiliation with Dickinson College in 1914, against much protest from locals, and reorganized as an independent institution. Dickinson School of Law merged into the Pennsylvania State University in 1997 as Penn State Dickinson School of Law.

The Carlisle Historic District, Carlisle Indian School, Hessian Powder Magazine, Carlisle Armory, and Old West, Dickinson College are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Ort : Geographische Breite: 40.2025, Geographische Länge: -77.195


Geburt

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Geburt    Personen-Kennung 
1 Brandon, John  geschätzt 1810Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I26148
2 Clever, Martin  10 Apr 1795Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I40888
3 Finkey, David Elmer  4 Okt 1914Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I28103
4 Finkey, John H.  26 Dez 1917Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I28105
5 Finkey, Mary Elizabeth  21 Dez 1911Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I28014
6 Lehman, Ferne L.  11 Mai 1919Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I168549
7 Lehman, J. Wilmer  5 Jul 1925Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I168570
8 Lehman, Melvin A.  15 Jun 1914Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I168486
9 Lehman, Theodore G.  24 Apr 1948Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I168563
10 Lehman, Rev Walter S.  4 Dez 1916Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I168495

Tod

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Tod    Personen-Kennung 
1 Brechbill, Ruth Joanne  5 Feb 2012Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I168504
2 Lehman, Earl Marlin  12 Sep 2014Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I168503
3 Lehman, J. Wilmer  4 Dez 2013Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I168570
4 Lehman, Jacob S.  20 Okt 1919Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I168432
5 Lehman, Melvin A.  29 Jan 1995Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I168486
6 Lehman, Pearl L.  25 Jun 1999Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I168554
7 Shoffner, Jack  Aug 1983Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I93271
8 Snoke, Nora E.  2 Mrz 1996Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I168487
9 Taylor, Jean  5 Jun 1781Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA I31059

Eheschließung

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   Familie    Eheschließung    Familien-Kennung 
1 Wenger / Lehman  15 Mai 1947Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA F55898