Carlisle, Pennsylvania Carlisle, Pennsylvania Carlisle Carlisle Official seal of Carlisle, Pennsylvania Carlisle is positioned in Pennsylvania Carlisle - Carlisle Carlisle is a borough and the governmental center of county of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The name is locally pronounced as in British English with emphasis on the second syllable /k r la l/.
Carlisle is positioned inside the Cumberland Valley, a highly productive agricultural region.
As of the 2010 census, the borough populace was 18,682; the estimated populace 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 lesser principal town/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. Army War College, positioned at the Carlisle Barracks, prepares high-level military personnel and civilians for strategic leadership responsibilities.
Carlisle Barracks rates among the earliest 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 Military Heritage Museum.
Carlisle also hosts Dickinson College and Penn State Dickinson School of Law.
Headquarters are in Carlisle.
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 titled the settlement after its sister town of Carlisle, Cumbria, England, and even assembled 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 titled made his command posts in Carlisle, and was promoted to brigadier general on December 27 of that year.
Stanwix had sat in Parliament as Member for Carlisle amid the 1740s.
Later amid 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 amid the American Revolutionary War.
The depot was later advanced into the United States Army War College at Carlisle Barracks.
Carlisle was incorporated as a borough a several years after the war on April 13, 1782.
Carlisle continued to play a part in the early evolution in the United States through the end of the century: In response to a prepared march in favor of the United States Constitution in 1787, Anti-Federalists instigated a brawl in Carlisle.
A decade later, amid 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, advanced Carlisle Grammar School in 1773 and chartered it as Dickinson College the first new college established in the newly recognized United States.
President, James Buchanan, graduated in 1809. The Dickinson School of Law, established in 1834 and affiliated then with Dickinson College, rates as the fifth-oldest law school in the United States and the earliest 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.
Carlisle, Pennsylvania (5656 - 229890).jpg Cumberland County Courthouse Tour, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, 29:27 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 amid 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 established 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, homed at Carlisle Barracks as an experiment in educating Native Americans and teaching them to reject tribal culture and to adapt to white society.
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 consideration to the school.
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 autonomous institution.
Dickinson School of Law consolidated 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. Carlisle is positioned slightly northeast of the center of Cumberland County at 40 12 9 N 77 11 42 W (40.202553, 77.195016) at an altitude of 479 feet (146 m). The borough lies in the Cumberland Valley, a section of the Great Appalachian Valley, to the south of Conodoguinet Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River.
Carlisle lies in south-central Pennsylvania southwest of the intersection of Interstate 76 (the Pennsylvania Turnpike) and Interstate 81 roughly 20 miles (32 km) west-southwest of Harrisburg, the state capital.
By road it is approximately 80 mi (130 km) northwest of Baltimore and 124 mi (200 km) west-northwest of Philadelphia. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Carlisle has a total region of 5.54 square miles (14.35 km2), of which 5.53 square miles (14.33 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.02 km2), or 0.14%, is water. Leading industries in Carlisle's past have encompassed Carlisle Tire and Rubber Company (founded 1917), Masland Carpets (founded 1866), and Frog Switch Manufacturing (founded 1876 by John Hays).
Carlisle Tire and Rubber and Masland Carpets have since gone out of business, and both plants were completed in 2013.
Carlisle has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfa) with hot, humid summers and cool winters.
The average temperature in Carlisle is 51.3 F (10.7 C) with temperatures exceeding 90 F (32 C) an average of 16 days a year and dropping below 32 F (0 C) an average of 119 days a year.
The hottest temperature recorded in Carlisle was 102 F (39 C) in 1966; the coldest temperature recorded was 19 F ( 28 C) in 1994. Climate data for Carlisle, Pennsylvania Penn State Dickinson School of Law United States Army War College Carlisle Area School District Carlisle Christian Academy Carlisle has one daily newspaper, The Sentinel. 960 WHYL Adult Standards Carlisle, Pennsylvania - 1000 WIOO Country Carlisle, Pennsylvania - 88.3 WDCV-FM Variety Carlisle, Pennsylvania Dickinson College radio 93.1 W226 - AS Contemporary Christian Carlisle, Pennsylvania Translator of WBYO, Sellersville, Pennsylvania 97.9 W250 - AP Country Carlisle, Pennsylvania Translator of WIOO 101.7 W269 - AS Christian Carlisle, Pennsylvania Family Radio translator 102.3 WCAT-FM Country Carlisle, Pennsylvania Broadcasts from Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Alice Bridges, born in 1916, Olympic bronze medalist at age 20 in 100 m swimming event (1936 Berlin Olympics); resided in Carlisle Arthur Japy Hepburn (1877 1964), admiral in the United States Navy, whose longterm position spanned the Spanish American War, World War I, and World War II Keeny, president of Louisiana Tech University from 1908 1926, born in Carlisle in 1860 Lois Lowry, author of children's literature who has been awarded the Newbery Medal twice; a several childhood years were spent in Carlisle, her mother's home town senator and congressman from Maryland, born in Carlisle in 1752 Carlisle is famous to many citizens for its car shows, put on regularly by Carlisle Events throughout the spring, summer, and fall at the Carlisle Fairgrounds.
In addition to the regularly scheduled shows there are specialty shows, including the GM Nationals, the Ford Nationals, the Chrysler Nationals, the Truck Nationals, Corvettes at Carlisle, and the Import/Kit Car Nationals.
Most likely because of its locale at the intersection of two primary trucking routes (I-81 and I-76), air pollution inside the borough often falls inside the range considered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups" [i.e., children, the elderly, and citizens with respiratory or heart disease].
The Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB), a ballet school and performing business known internationally for their alumni, is based in Carlisle.
Carlisle is the command posts of the Giant Food supermarkets in Pennsylvania.
Carlisle was home to the Washington Redskins training camp for many years.
There are presently two fire companies supporting Carlisle: Union in downtown and Carlisle Fire and Rescue on the north side of Carlisle.
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