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Cumberland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and is one of three counties comprising the Harrisburg – Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area . As of 2010, the population was 235,406.
Plaque at Middle Spring Presbyterian Church 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 settlers originally mostly devoted the area to farming and later developed other trades. These settlers built the Middle Spring Presbyterian Church , among the oldest houses of worship in central Pennsylvania, in 1738 near present day Shippensburg, Pennsylvania . The General Assembly of the Pennsylvania colony on January 27, 1750, created Cumberland County from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , naming it for Cumberland , England . Its county seat is Carlisle . The county also lies within the Cumberland Valley adjoining the Susquehanna River at its eastern border, stretching approximately 42 miles from the borough of Shippensburg on the west to the Susquehanna River in east Cumberland County. "Old Main" at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania The oldest towns in the county are Shippensburg, Pennsylvania , and Carlisle, Pennsylvania , each with its unique history. Shippensburg is home to Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania , one of 14 universities of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education . Carlisle is also home to Dickinson College , established in 1773, and the Penn State Dickinson School of Law .