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Cumberland County: An Architectural Survey presents a tour of significant architecture in each municipality in the county. You will see and read about late eighteenth-century stone farm houses, elegant Federal-era town houses, ornate Victorian mansions, brick-end barns, log grist mills and... read more

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On November 6, 1794, Theophile Cazenove spent the night at Thomas Foster's tavern in Carlisle, the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Linda E Smith, Executive Director, Cumberland County Historical Society

INTRODUCTION

Chapter I: 1750-1825 "The Inhabitants are generally Irish, and a few Germans"
Chapter II: 1825-1900 "Move Toward a Better Life"
Chapter III: 1900-1940 "Where town joins country ... between city and farm lands"
MUNICIPALITIES

Camp Hill - Twentieth-century residential architecture
Carlisle - The Federal era
Cooke Township - Iron furnaces
Dickinson Township - Frame bank barns
East Pennsboro - Township Railroads
Frankford Townships: Lower & Upper - Log barns
Hampden Township - Mills
Hopewell Township - Covered bridges
Lemoyne - Twentieth-century apartment buildings
Lower Allen Township - Eighteenth-century stone houses
Mechanicsburg - The Victorian era
Middlesex Township - An eighteenth-century brick house
Mifflin Townships: Lower & Upper - Log buildings '
Monroe Township - Brick-end barns
Mount Holly Springs Industry and architecture, the yellow brick of Mount Holly
Newburg - Brick-cased log houses
New Cumberland - Twentieth-century commercial buildings
Newton Townships: North & South - Public school buildings
Newville - Log houses, 1790-1820
North Middleton Township - An eighteenth-century stone house and cemetery
Penn Township - Rural villages
Shippensburg Borough & Township - Late nineteenth-century commercial buildings
Shiremanstown - Mid-nineteenth century vernacular buildings
Silver Spring Township - Federal farm houses with attached kitchens
Southampton Township - Mid-nineteenth-century farm houses
South Middleton Township - Nineteenth-century tenant houses
Upper Allen Township - Rural houses and the transformation of the landscape, 1840-1890
West Fairview - Artisans' and workers' houses
West Pennsboro Township - Stone bank barns
Wormleysburg - The Pennsylvania farmhouse style
Bibliography
Glossary
Appendix
Figure Credits
National Register Sites
Index

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  1. Nancy Van Dolsen (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Cumberland County Historical
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1990
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