Carlisle, capital of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, 19 miles WSW. of Harrisburg by rail, is the centre of a rich agricultural country. It is the seat of Dickinson College (Methodist), a government school for Indian children, and has barracks, machine-shops, a foundry, and manufactures of railway cars, carriages, carpets, windows, and shoes. It was shelled by the Confederates in 1863. Pop. 7620.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 770
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