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About Carlisle, PA

Carlisle is a borough in and the county seat of Cumberland County , Pennsylvania , United States. The name is traditionally pronounced with emphasis on the second syllable. Carlisle is located within the Cumberland Valley , a highly productive agricultural region. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 19,262. Including suburbs in the neighboring townships, 37,695 live in the Carlisle urban cluster. Carlisle also is an exurb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , to the east. Carlisle is the smaller principal 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. The U.S. Army War College , located at the Carlisle Barracks , caters to high-level military personnel and civilians and prepares them for strategic leadership responsibilities. Carlisle Barracks ranks among the oldest installations in the 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 . Ahold 's US headquarters are in Carlisle

History of Carlisle, PA

History American pioneer John Armstrong, Sr. , circa 1751 laid the plan for the settlement of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Scots-Irish immigrants settled in Carlisle and farmed the Cumberland Valley . They named the settlement after its sister town of Carlisle, Cumbria , England and even built its former jail-house to resemble Carlisle Citadel . In 1757, Colonel-Commandant John Stanwix made his headquarters there, and was later promoted to Brigadier-General later in the year on December 27, 1757. Fort Stanwix is named for him. John Armstrong, Sr., founder of the town, fathered John Armstrong, Jr. , born in Carlisle in 1758. It is interesting to note that John Stanwix sat in Parliament as Member for Carlisle during the 1740s, that his surname 'Stanwix' is the name of a historic village to the north of Carlisle, Cumbria, and that the surname 'Armstrong' is an old Reiver name common to the Anglo-Scottish border and the Carlisle district.

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