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Wikipedia =Dickinson College=Dickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1773 as Carlisle Grammar School, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, six days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded after the formation of the United States. Dickinson was founded by Benjamin Rush,...
Wikipedia The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. Founded in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry Pratt under authority of the US federal government, Carlisle was the first federally funded off-reservation Indian boarding school. It ...
This project is part of the State of Maine Portal . = Cumberland County, Maine is a county in the southwestern part of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 281,674, making it the most populous county in Maine. Its county seat is Portland. Cumberland County was founded in 1760 from a portion of York County, Massachusetts and named for William, Duke of Cumberland, a son of King Ge...
Established by the city in 1854, the cemetery was designed by Charles H. Howe as a rural landscape with winding carriage paths, ponds, footbridges, gardens, a chapel, funerary art, and sculpture. It also includes extensive wooded wetlands. Evergreen was modeled after America's first rural cemetery-Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The popularity of garden/rural cemeteries as designed la...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Cumberland County was first settled by a majority of Scots-Irish immigrants who arrived in this area about 1730. English and German settlers constituted about ten percent of the early population. The General Assembly (legislature) of the Pennsylvania colony on January 27, 1750, c...
Founded in 1862 by an act of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Chestnut Hill Cemetery is one of the Mechanicsburg area's most historic landmarks. On June 28, 1863, when General Albert Jenkins marched his 700 or so cavalrymen through Mechanicsburg and demanded that the town surrender, the Cemetery was mistaken by Jenkins' scouts for an entrenched military position. From the conclusion of the C...
Wikipedia = Bowdoin College Bowdoin College /ˈboʊdɨn/ is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick. Founded in 1794, the college enrolls 1,839 students and has been coeducational since 1971. Bowdoin offers 33 majors and 4 additional minors, and has a student-faculty ratio of 9:1. Famous alumni include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Franklin ...
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (Ship or SU) is a public university in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Founded in 1871, it later became the first teachers college in Pennsylvania. Shippensburg University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. History The commonwealth legislated the State Normal ...
Wikipedia The Battle of Sailor's Creek was fought on April 6, 1865, near Farmville, Virginia, as part of the Appomattox Campaign, near the end of the American Civil War. It was the last major engagement between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee and the Army of the Potomac, under the overall direction of Union General-in-Chief Lieutenant General Ulyss...
This project is for those buried in Drummond Cemetery, Neoga, Cumberland County, Illinois. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on Church Road just south of the Walnut Bottom Road Route 174 in Penn Township. Find a Grave
Cumberland County was established in 1749 from Goochland County. The county is named for William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, third son of King George II of Great Britain. Cumberland County was also home to the Fleming family, which included Judge John Fleming and his son Judge William Fleming. From 1749 until 1777, when the eastern portion was detached to form Powhatan County, Mosby Tavern s...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1754 from Bladen County. It was named for Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765), captain-general of the British army and victorious commander at the Battle of Culloden. In 1771 parts of Cumberland County, Johnston County, and Orange Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, Kentucky. Official Website Cumberland County was created in 1798 from land given by Green County. It was named for the Cumberland River. In 1829, the first oil well in the United States was dug three miles north of Burkesville. However, it is usually not recognized as such because the drillers were looking for sa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, New Jersey. Official Website Cumberland County is named for Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. The county was formally created from portions of Salem County as of January 19, 1748. Adjacent Counties Atlantic County Gloucester County Cape May County Kent County, Delaware Salem County Municipali...
Located in Cumberland County, North Carolina, this cemetery is located in southwestern Fayetteville very close to the border between Fayettevile and Hope Mills. From Raeford Rd. (US 401 Business) take Hope Mills Rd. (NC 59) down about 5 miles until you come to Cumberland Rd. At the light at Cumberland Rd. take a right and go about 4 miles, the Cemetery will be on your left. (At this point the n...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, Illinois. Official Website Cumberland County was created on March 2, 1843, from parts of Coles County. It is named for the National Road (Cumberland Road), which was projected to run through it. Adjacent Counties Coles County Clark County Jasper County Shelby County Effingham County Cities, Vil...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, Tennessee. Official Website History Cumberland County was formed in 1856 from parts of several other counties. During the Civil War, the county was nearly evenly split between those supporting the Union and those supporting the Confederacy. In 1787, the North Carolina legislature ordered widening and improvem...
This project is for those buried in Burkesville Cemetery, Burkesville, Cumberland County, Kentucky. Find a Grave
The park is located on 2002 Congress Street, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. Official Website Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Black Point Cemetery, Scarborough, Cumberland County, Maine. Find a Grave
Original log meeting house was erected 1737 near the Big Spring. Church was fully organized, October 1738. Present stone structure was built 1789, and in 1790 the trustees laid out Newville as a town on the church-owned glebe. Erected 1985 by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. (Marker Number 197.) Historical Marker Database In the Very Historic Big Spring Graveyard at Newville...
This project is for those buried in Big Rockfish Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Hope Mills, Cumberland County, North Carolina. Find a Grave NC Gen Web Wikipedia
Standish Cemetery is on the south side of Oak Hill Road in Standish, Cumberland County, Maine just a short distance west of the intersection with Route 25, Ossipee Trail. It is across the road from "The Old Red Church" First Parish Meeting House that was built in 1804. Find a Grave
The Battle of High Bridge refers to two engagements fought on April 6, 1865 and April 7, 1865, near the end of the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War about 4 miles northeast of Farmville, Virginia. The first battle is often the one identified as the Battle of High Bridge. On April 6, 1865, Confederate cavalry under Major General Thomas L. Rosser fought stubbornly to secure the South...