In 1848 Maryland slaveowner Mary M. Oliver filed a lawsuit in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania against Daniel Kauffman and two associates for helping thirteen fugitive slaves escape. Early in October 1847 two families of slaves – four adults and nine children …
Robert Cornman, a wealthy young manufacturer and entrepreneur, purchased an East High Street lot from Simon Wunderlich during the 1840s and constructed in ninety days an impressive brick four-story building. At the time it was one of the larger, and taller, structures …
The Farmers’ Hotel, 1860 (The Bentz House, 1872) Read more »
This courthouse was the third on the Carlisle Public Square. The first Cumberland County courthouse was a temporary log structure on the north-east corner of the square built in 1753. In 1766, a new brick courthouse was built on the …