Chambersburg, Pennsylvania "Chambersburg"
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Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Borough of Chambersburg Memorial Square in downtown Chambersburg Memorial Square in downtown Chambersburg Chambersburg is a borough in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States.
Chambersburg is the governmental center of county of Franklin County.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau the 2010 populace was 20,268. When combined with the encircling Greene, Hamilton, and Guilford Townships, the populace of Greater Chambersburg is 52,273.
Chambersburg is at the core of the Chambersburg, PA Micropolitan Travel Destination which includes encircling Franklin County.
The populace of the Chambersburg Micropolitan Area in 2010 was 149,618. Chambersburg's settlement began in 1730 when water mills were assembled at the confluence of Conococheague Creek and Falling Spring Creek that now run through the center of the town.
Its history includes episodes relating to the French and Indian War, the Whiskey Rebellion, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and the American Civil War.
Chambersburg is positioned along the Lincoln Highway, U.S.
1.4.3 Formation of first school for orphaned kids of soldiers killed in the Civil War 7.3 Scotland School for Veterans' Children On March 30, 1734, Chambers was issued a "Blunston license" for 400 acres (160 ha), from a representative of the Penn family, but European settlement in the region was of questionable legality until the treaty ending the French and Indian War, because not all Indian tribes with territory claims had signed treaties. The Penn family encouraged settlement in the region in order to strengthen its case in a border dispute with the Maryland Colony, which had resulted in hostilities known as Cresap's War.
The region was officially part of Chester County, then Lancaster, and then Cumberland until it became part of the newly established Franklin County in 1784. In 1744, it was instead of through Harris's Ferry, Carlisle, Shippensburg, and Chambersburg to the Potomac River. Chambersburg was on the frontier amid the French and Indian War.
The area's populace dropped from about 3,000 in 1755 at the start of the war to about 300, with most pioneer not returning until after 1764 when the peace treaty was signed. Benjamin Chambers assembled a private contemporary fort amid the war, which was equipped with two 4 pounder cannons and fighting occurred nearby. Because Chambers's fort was otherwise lightly defended, the authorities attempted to remove the cannons to prevent them from being captured by Indians and used against other forts.
The attempted removal was unsuccessful, and one of the cannons was used to jubilate Independence Day in 1840. The Forbes Road and other trails going to Fort Pitt passed close-by as well. The Forbes Road advanced into part of the chief road connecting Pittsburg and Philadelphia, and much later into US 30, and Chambersburg advanced as a transit hub at the crossroads of Forbes Road and the Great Wagon Road.
Fighting continued in the region after the war, most prominently the Enoch Brown school massacre amid Pontiac's War and the Black Boys rebellion against British troops at Fort Loudon. Quakers and English Protestants, who made up a large proportion of early Pennsylvania settlers, did not often move as far west as Chambersburg.
Blacks lived in Chambersburg almost from the start of settlement.
The town was first laid out in 1764, and lots were advertised for sale on July 19 in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette amid the War of 1812.) After sending the troops toward Pittsburgh from Bedford under General Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Washington returned through Chambersburg sometime between October 21 26. James Chambers was appointed a Brigadier General of Militia amid the Whiskey Rebellion. Chambersburg was incorporated on March 21, 1803, and declared the County Seat when the State Assembly established a formal government.
The first courthouse was John Jack's tavern on the Diamond (town square) in 1784, with a permanent courthouse assembled in 1793, and the first county jail assembled 1795. The "Old Jail" was assembled in 1818, railwaythe fire of 1864 and is the earliest jail building in Pennsylvania.
Today the Old Jail is a exhibition and home to the Franklin County Kittochtinny Historical Society. The county's gallows still stand in the jail's courtyard. Congress placed Chambersburg on the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh postal road in 1803.
Until the culmination of the Pennsylvania Railroad's chief line in 1857, the quickest route from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia was by stagecoach from Pittsburgh to Chambersburg, and then by train to Philadelphia.
By 1859, Chambersburg was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
While in Chambersburg Brown posed as Dr.
Main article: Chambersburg Raid Stuart, with 1,800 cavalrymen, raided Chambersburg, destroying $250,000 of barns property and taking 500 guns, hundreds of horses, and at least "eight young colored men and boys." They failed, however, to accomplish one of the chief targets of the raid: to burn the barns bridge athwart the Conococheague Creek at Scotland, five miles (8 km) north of town. The following year, Chambersburg was invaded for a third time, as cavalry, dispatched from the Shenandoah Valley by Jubal Early, arrived. On July 30, 1864, a large portion of the town was burned down by Brig.
One black Chambersburg resident was killed when Confederates refused to allow him to leave his burning home.
Another man was asked by the Confederates if he had ever educated "niggers"; after replying that he had, the Confederates burned his home as well. Subsequently, "Remember Chambersburg" soon became a Union battle cry. Jubal Early, who ordered the burning of Chambersburg Lieutenant General Jubal Early was accused of war crimes for ordering the burning of Chambersburg.
Because two kids of dead Union soldiers came begging for food from Chambersburg residents, the first school in Pennsylvania was created to serve kids of Veterans orphaned because of war.
The Governor of the state eventually established 69 additional such schools athwart the state.
The initial school in Chambersburg was retitled "The Scotland School for Veterans Children" in the 1890s.
"Fountain, Memorial Square, Chambersburg, Pa." To this day, the Civil War burning of Chambersburg remains a part of the town's historic identity and annual memorial affairs are held.
Chambersburg has also recently been the subject of study on how citizens have historically perceived and responded to war tragedies.
The following places in Chambersburg are on the National Register of Historic Places: Chambersburg, Pa." Brotherton Farm SW of Chambersburg on Falling Spring Rd.
Chambersburg Historic District US 11 and US 30 (2,320 acres (940 ha), 159 buildings) 1982 Gass House E of Chambersburg off U.S.
Chambersburg historic sites, Franklin County Historical Society Includes images of the Old Jail, gallows, and the John Brown House According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Chambersburg has a total region of 6.8 square miles (17.6 km2), all land.
The altitude is 617 feet (188 m) above sea level. Chambersburg is positioned in the Cumberland Valley next to the Appalachian Mountains.
Also outside of Chambersburg is Michaux State Forest, a 85,000-acre (34,000 ha) forest.
Chambersburg has a cold climate, as stated to the United States Department of Energy. The region receives anywhere from 38 to 42 inches (970 to 1,070 mm) of rain per year. And Chambersburg falls inside the warmest part of the Humid Continental Climate with some characteristics in the summer of a Humid Subtropical Climate, but bears much more characteristics of the former.
Water fortress in Chambersburg Franklin also has 344 wheat farms and 299 barley farms which combined cover 14,063 acres (5,691 ha). Manufacturing in Chambersburg includes machinery production, metal fabrication, and food refining as stated to the 1997 Economic Enumeration of Franklin County. The biggest sectors by payroll were manufacturing companies such as T B Wood's Inc., Manitowoc cranes, retail trade, and community care and civil assistance.
The Chambersburg Mall with four anchor stores and about fifty lesser stores is positioned in the unincorporated village of Scotland, about four miles (6 km) north of town on Interstate 81. Chambersburg's retail zone has grown quickly since 2006 with the opening of Target, Petsmart, Michaels, and Kohls near the newly assembled Exit 17 of Interstate 81.
Camp David also employs Chambersburg residents.
In 2004 Chambersburg had a per capita personal income (PCPI) of $28,208, below the nationwide average of $33,050. Chambersburg is part of small town America.
The town also hosts a experienced football team, the Chambersburg Cardinals, that plays in the Gridiron Developmental Football League.
In 2003, it reopened as the Capitol Theatre Center and is home to the Capitol Theatre Main Stage and Auditorium, Chambersburg Council for the Arts, Caledonia Theatre Company, Chambersburg Ballet Theatre School, and Chambersburg Community Theatre. In 2009, Chambersburg ranked among Newsmax magazine's list of the "Top 25 Most Uniquely American Cities and Towns," a piece written by current CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg.
Wilson College is home to the Cumberland Valley School of Music, a small-town school offering private instruction on various musical instruments.
Journalist David Brooks in 2001 used Chambersburg and Franklin County to typify Republican "Red America." Chambersburg is part of the 9th Congressional District of Pennsylvania and represented by Bill Shuster (R) in the House of Representatives, and by Pat Toomey (R), and Bob Casey, Jr.(D) in the Senate.
Further information: Chambersburg Area Senior High School Wilson College is a private, Presbyterian-related, liberal arts women's college established in 1869 and titled for its first primary donor, Sarah Wilson of Chambersburg.
In 2009, the school opened the first "green" ground building in Chambersburg, PA.
Chambersburg High School in 1921 Chambersburg Area Senior High School (CASHS) is a enhance school with around 2,400 students in grades 9 12, drawn from the borough of Chambersburg and the encircling townships of Hamilton, Greene, Lurgan, Letterkenny and Guilford.
Barry Purvis was recognized as the 2006 High School Principal of the Year by the Pennsylvania Association of Elementary and Secondary School Principals. Frank Faust Junior High School was the only enhance junior high school for eighth and ninth undertaking students of the Chambersburg Area School District.
Frank Faust is now a middle school for Chambersburg region students in the north.
Chambersburg Area Middle School SOUTH was the only middle school, but as of August 2011, it became CAMS SOUTH, 6th through 8th grade.
During the 2001 02 school year, CAMS was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive. The Franklin County Career and Technology Center is also positioned in Chambersburg.
FCCTC is a school designated for students and grownups to learn vocational trades while still learning core subjects in school.
There are presently six different school districts with students attending FCCTC: Chambersburg, Fannett-Metal, Greencastle-Antrim, Shippensburg, Tuscarora, and Waynesboro. The Chambersburg school precinct includes seventeen elementary schools.
The Scotland School for Veterans' Children (SSVC) was a state owned school that offered tuition-free residentiary education programs for kids of Pennsylvania inhabitants who are veterans or are presently serving in the U.S.
Governor Curtin set up 70 schools athwart the state and they became known as the 'Soldier's Orphan Schools'.
As students graduated, the student bodies of the schools began to diminish and in 1895 all of the schools closed saved one, the one positioned in Scotland.
The name was changed to Scotland School for Veteran's Children.
It was positioned about four miles (6 km) north of Chambersburg in the unincorporated village of Scotland and had about 300 students in grades 3 12.
The school was established in 1895 as the Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans Industrial School.
The 186-acre (75 ha) ground contains about 70 buildings including residentiary cottages. In 2009, Governor Ed Rendell removed funding for the school in the year's state budget, thereby forcing the school to close. Private schools include Corpus Christi, a Catholic school with 310 students and over 20 teachers and Cumberland Valley Christian School, a private Christian kindergarten through twelfth undertaking academy positioned in Chambersburg.
Other private schools include the Montessori Academy of Chambersburg (22 months-12th grade, non-sectarian) and Shalom Christian Academy (K-12, Mennonite affiliation), and a several elementary schools with Mennonite, Baptist, Brethren, Christian Science, and other theological orientations. Later the library was made part of the Franklin County Library and began to receive funds from the County and State, though the Afternoon Club still donated funds though at least 1979.
The Chambersburg Public Opinion is the only daily journal presented in town, and has weekday circulation about 17,000.
WJAL, a family oriented station broadcasts from Chambersburg, and Harrisburg PBS station WITF-TV rebroadcasts via low-powered translator W38 - AN.
WHTM is the first network affiliated tv station to establish a agency in Chambersburg.
Chambersburg shares a radio market, the 165th biggest in the United States, with Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, and Hagerstown, Maryland. Radio stations in the Hagerstown Chambersburg Waynesboro market Army, was educated in Chambersburg in the 1830s.
Patrick Gass (1771 1870), the last surviving member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, was born just outside Chambersburg (Falling Spring).
Kenton Harper, Virginia journal editor and Confederate army general amid the Civil War, born and raised in Chambersburg Houston, a famous Mayanist scholar, epigrapher, and anthropologist was born in Chambersburg in 1958.
Archbishop John Hughes of New York lived in Chambersburg between 1817 and 1819 before going on to Mount St.
His family is buried at the Corpus Christi Church Cemetery in Chambersburg.
Journalist and author Gwen Ifill (1955 2016) spent a portion of her childhood in Chambersburg while her father was pastor at St.
Joseph Winters an black inventor and abolitionist, moved to Chambersburg in 1830.
Chambersburg Raid Chambersburg propel officials Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Chambersburg.
Table 4: Annual Estimates of the Population for Incorporated Places in Pennsylvania, Listed Alphabetically: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2008, U.S.
Table 1: Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Counties of Pennsylvania: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2008, U.S.
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"Chambersburg Mall".
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"A Cultural Centerpiece: Chambersburg's Capitol Theatre".
"Borough of Chambersburg Structure".
Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982 1983 through 1999 2002 (PDF) Archived March 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine., accessed May 11, 2006 "The Blue Ribbon award is given only to schools that reach the top 10 percent of their state's testing scores over a several years or show momentous gains in student achievement.
Viers Mill School Wins Blue Ribbon; School Scored High on Statewide Test; The Washington Post.
September 29, 2005 "For their accomplishments, all three schools this month earned the status of Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the U.S.
"Scotland School for Veteran's Children".
Scotland School for Veteran's Children website.
Scotland School for Veteran's Children website accessed May 16, 2007 Foundation For Scotland School For Veterans' Children.
It is with a sad heart and a deep sense of loss that we must announce that the Scotland School for Veterans' Children, a 114-year-old veterans' benefit, is closing.
Corpus Christi school website Montessori Academy of Chambersburg accessed September 16, 2013.
Private Schools in Chambersburg PA accessed March 24, 2007.
Market Ranks and Schedules 151 200, Arbitron, Fall 2007, Retrieved March 22, 2008.
Southern Revenge!: Civil War History of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (White Mane Publishing Company, 1989).
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Historical Sketch of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (PDF).
Chambersburg.
Images of America: Chambersburg, Maurice Leonard Marotte III & Janet Kay Pollard (Arcadia, 2005) Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Chambersburg.
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