Carlisle, Pennsylvania

City: Carlisle

County: Cumberland

State: Pennsylvania

Lat/Long: 40.2000, -77.1833

Located in the Cumberland Valley nineteen miles west of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Carlisle is the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Euro-Americans first settled in Carlisle in 1720. Dickinson College was established in the town in the late 1700s, followed by the Dickinson School of Law in 1834. Carlisle is the home of Molly Pitcher, famed heroine of the American Revolution. It also served as George Washington's headquarters during the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. During the Civil War, Confederate troops shelled the town on July 1, 1863.

Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1997), 215; Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World. A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer or Geographical Dictionary of the World (Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott, 1880), 801.