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Carlisle (Borough and county-seat It)

borough and county-seat It is is the farming and manuof Cumberland co., Pa.; on the Cumber- land Valley and the Philadelphia and ty, and is the seat of Dickinson Colland Valley and the Philadelphia and Reading railroads; 18 miles W. of Harrisburg. facturing trade center of Cumberland ing the Civil War the town twice sur- rendered to the Parliamentarians (1645 and 1648). Pop. about 52,000. CARLISLE, borough and county-seat and 1648). Pop. about 52,000. county, United States Indian Training School up to the time of its discontinuation. It has large manufacturing establishments, the traits and tendencies of Irish peas- Hamilton Library, Todd Hospital, etc. It was the headquarters of Washington spicuous in his first success, "Traits and during the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, Stories of the Irish Peasantry." Then and was bombarded by the Confederates came: "Willy Reilly"; "The Fair of Emyvale," "Fardorougha the Miser," and several other novels of great power, in which much that seems anomalous in the manners and methods of the author's