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Front and Reno - Completed in 1960 as a project of the New Cumberland Women’s Club, the 16-acre park was dedicated August 21 of that year. It was the site of the Haldeman Grain Mill built about 1826 (approximately Reno and Front Streets), by New Cumberland founder Jacob Miller Haldeman (1781–1857). It was later known as the old Ross Mill or the Reliance Rolling Mill. The mill was gone 1920. Remains of the mill race can be seen as a swale on the left after entering the park’s right side. It was also the site of the Cumberland, or Haldeman Forge, an ironworks built by Haldeman’s father John in 1806 and later owned by Jacob. It was just up the creek from the grain mill.

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102-114 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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102–114 Bridge St. - A group of wooden row houses stood here between 1870 and 1960. It was home to blue collar laborers who worked at various factories in New Cumberland, and, according to Charles Stone, “the poor, the bedraggled, and the less virtuous.” The houses were destroyed in a fire. A car wash and restaurant are now on the site.

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Novelty Works/New Cumberland Cigar Box andTobacco Factory/Wright Motor Car Company Building

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Novelty Works/New Cumberland Cigar Box andTobacco Factory/Wright Motor Car Company Building

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Second and Locust Ave. - This building appears on Fire Insurance Maps in 1908 as the John C. Herman Tobacco Warehouse. Prior to that it was the New Cumberland Novelty Works. During 1910–11, it was the Wright Motor Car Company, where several New Cumberland entrepreneurs started a car manufacturing company. The car was the “Wright” and only six cars were ever built. The business failed in 1911.

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201 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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201 Bridge Street - This building appears on an 1872 map of New Cumberland and is listed as the parsonage for the Methodist Episcopal Church next door. It features an outbuilding on the right rear, possibly an outdoor kitchen structure.

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206 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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The second Methodist Church in New Cumberland stood here and replaced the original church at Second Alley and Market Sts.(see #8). Construction began in 1859 and it was dedicated in 1861. The growing congregation abandoned this building and built Baughman United Methodist Church at Third and Bridge, dedicated in 1908. The second floor of the building then became for many years the headquarters of a fraternal organization, the Order of United American Mechanics (OUAM) Riverside Council #87. For a time, the New Cumberland Paper Box Factory was on the first floor, which manufactured cardboard boxes. Originally the Peterman Box Company, it was taken over by Charles G. Stone in 1919. Later the paper box factory moved to the New Cumberland Knitting Mill site (see #5). The building was torn down sometime after the 1936 flood. The site is now the parking lot for a day care business.

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228 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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228 Bridge Street - By 1900 the Methodist congregation at 206 Bridge had outgrown their building and they purchased two lots at the corner of Third and Bridge. The building was dedicated in 1908. J. F. Baughman, a leading businessman in New Cumberland, donated a substantial amount for the Church‘s construction. Hence, the church was named after him. The church still has an endowment fund in his name.

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Joseph Brownewell Family House (233 Bridge St.) and Taylor/Wright Meat Market (214 Third St.). Joseph Brownewell (1799–1882) was a farmer in Fairview Township, York Co. He owned lots 139, 140 and 141 on Bridge Street. Brownewell is listed on the 1870 and 1880 census as a “retired farmer.” He is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The house was on Haldeman’s lot #141 was probably built around 1870. The Taylor/Wright Meat Market, a wooden building built around 1880, was originally the rear portion of lot #141. By 1885 John Taylor and his son Frank were running a butcher shop here. They also owned the adjoining Brownewell house. The house and meat market were sold to J. W. Wright around 1900. Wright enlarged the house by building front and side porches, adding a portico in the back, and four bedrooms by expanding the right side of the house. 233 Bridge is now a retail shop and dwelling. Wright also built the duplex at 231 Bridge on lots 139 and 140 for his daughters.

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233 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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Joseph Brownewell Family House (233 Bridge St.) and Taylor/Wright Meat Market (214 Third St.). Joseph Brownewell (1799–1882) was a farmer in Fairview Township, York Co. He owned lots 139, 140 and 141 on Bridge Street. Brownewell is listed on the 1870 and 1880 census as a “retired farmer.” He is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The house was on Haldeman’s lot #141 was probably built around 1870. The Taylor/Wright Meat Market, a wooden building built around 1880, was originally the rear portion of lot #141. By 1885 John Taylor and his son Frank were running a butcher shop here. They also owned the adjoining Brownewell house. The house and meat market were sold to J. W. Wright around 1900. Wright enlarged the house by building front and side porches, adding a portico in the back, and four bedrooms by expanding the right side of the house. 233 Bridge is now a retail shop and dwelling. Wright also built the duplex at 231 Bridge on lots 139 and 140 for his daughters.

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300 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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300 Bridge St. - By 1880 there was a dry goods store here, owned by Joseph J. Baughman. George W. Buttorff and a Mr. Wise bought the store from him in 1880. Wise died in 1881, and Robert M. Kline (1837–1911, buried Mt. Olivet Cemetery) bought out the Wise interest. The Buttorff and Kline General Store remained in business until Kline’s death. Though the exterior and first floor have been heavily remodeled, the upper floors are largely intact. Note the decorative lintels above the windows and the cornices on each side. The original Mansard roof and exterior was altered about 1985 into a modern design by California architect William Arthur Patrick, Jr. (1919–2009), born in New Cumberland and who studied at Taliesin with Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1949). There have been many businesses and enterprises in this building over the years, notably the Esther Hempt (1900– 2005) women’s clothing store at 308 Bridge. The Hempt store was known regionally as a classy and professional women’s shop.

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305 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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305 Bridge Street - This building has housed restaurants since 1896, according to Sanborn maps.
• Fred S. Cookerly and his family operated Cookerly’s here from about 1925 to the 1960s. An earlier Cookerly restaurant was at 220 Fourth Street. In 1938, local religious leaders attempted to stop the restaurant from obtaining a state liquor license as it was located within 300 feet of a church. This was in the wake of the nearby Frownfelter Murder (see #21).
• The restaurant then became the Town Tavern operating from the 1960s to 1976, managed by Russ and Mary Sweigart, and owned by Vance Smith, a stockbroker from Harrisburg.
• Coakley’s Irish Pub and Restaurant (303–305 Bridge Street). Coakley’s operated here from 1976 to 2014. Richard “Dick” Coakley (1933–2019), along with his wife Susan (1933–2020), managed this popular local hangout with an Irish theme. He purchased several adjoining properties at this location to create a small complex of restaurant and tap rooms. It was one of the most popular restaurants in the Harrisburg area, and always had an annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration. Dick Coakley was a founding member of the New Cumberland Olde Towne Association.

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310 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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310 Bridge St. - Completed in 1905 - The red sandstone carving accents are in the Neo-classical Revival style popular at that time. It merged in 1938 with the New Cumberland Trust Company (organized in 1924), to become the Cumberland County National Bank and Trust Company (CCNB). At this point the bank moved across the street to where the PNC building is today (see #34). The building was then occupied by Russel B. Updegraff, who moved his law office from the back of his father's grocery store at 10th and Bridge to this site. He bought the building and added the second floor which consists of three apartments. Around 1950, Clinton R. Weidner moved his law office from Carlisle to 310 Bridge and the office became known as Updegraff and Weidner. Weidner was elected District Attorney in the 1950s and a Cumberland County judge in 1965. Charles H. Stone joined the firm in 1957 and Jon LaFaver in 1960. "Doc" Updegraff died in 1963. Gerald T. Sajer joined the firm in 1965. In 1987 Sajer left the firm to become Adjutant General of Pennsylvania. The building is now apartments and businesses.

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315 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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315 Bridge St., built 1939 - Designed by Philadelphia architect William H. Lee in the Art Moderne style, it features a chrome and neon marquee. It opened on January 22, 1940 with the film “The Secret of Dr. Kildare.” The theater replaced a late nineteenth century Second Empire house. Frank J. Freistak, Sr. and his family began the Family Motion Picture Theatre on Market Street (see #20) and then had the West Shore Theatre built on this site. It remained in his family for several generations. The Freistaks also operated the Shore Drive-In, which opened in 1954 across the Yellow Breeches near the Capitol City Airport.

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321 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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321 Bridge St. - early 1930s - An example of a commercial block building, it contains Art Deco elements. It was built and used by Marty and Press Brunhouse as a drug store and restaurant. Known for many years as a gathering place for locals to catch up on the news. The Brunhouses sold it after it was damaged by the 1972 flood. Since then the building has been a natural foods store, among other retailers. The second floor often featured restaurants.

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323 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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Residence/Business building. Note the entryway, with a beautiful Palladian window above the door. Built as a residence, it housed for many years the dentistry business of Dr. Ray Kuhn.

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331 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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331 Bridge St. - Building constructed in 1906 by entrepreneur Conrad L. Hale. Hale took a junior partner, Maurice Hoff. They ran the Hale and Hoff general store here; it later became the Arbegast Furniture Store. The Cumberland County National Bank moved here in 1938 (see #38) and merged with the New Cumberland Trust Company, as a result of the Great Depression. The CCNB building became the headquarters for about ten branches from Newport to Gettysburg. The Pittsburgh National Corporation (PNC) absorbed CCNB in 1993 and the building is now a branch of that bank.

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323 Reno Avenue, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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323 Reno Street - Rev. John Winebrenner founded the Churches of God in Harrisburg in 1825 as he broke away from the German Reformed Church. The cornerstone for this original church was laid July 26, 1898 and dedicated the following November 13. The church rapidly grew and the present building was built in 1914. The cornerstone of the original building was saved and placed along the Reno Street wall of the present church. For more information go to:
www.ncfirstchurchofgod.org/about/church-history

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316 Fourth St. - The cornerstone for this building was laid at a ceremony during Geary Days, July 27, 1906. It was first known as the Citizen’s Hose Company #1,. The Citizen’s Hose Company formed in 1896 after several disastrous fires. One on July 19, 1890, burned several factories and homes at the southeastern portion of town (see #4). Another on April 10, 1895 destroyed the Eisenberger Home at the northwest corner of Fifth and Bridge Sts. Assistance for these fires had to be provided from companies in Harrisburg, and by the time help arrived it was often too late. Between 1896 and 1906, the company had no permanent building until this one. The current New Cumberland Fire Station, completed in 1980, is across the street at 319 Fourth Street. In 1966, the Citizen’s Hose Company and the Elkwood Fire Co. #2 merged to become the New Cumberland Fire Department. More history of the NC Fire Department can be found at: www.newcumberlandfire.org/history/
The building now houses several businesses. New Cumberland’s first building mural was completed here in 2019 by artist Stephen Michael Hass.

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D & S Coin Shop, 224 Fourth St. - On August 19, 1994, New Cumberland Police Officer Willis Cole responded to a 911 call that the Coin Shop was being robbed by two burglars. While arresting one of the assailants, Cole was shot to death by the other, Seifullah Abdul-Salaam, who was sentenced to death row. Abdul-Salaam was removed from death row in 2018.

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335-339 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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Dr. Jacob Warren Roop House and Good Drug Store

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Dr. Jacob Warren Roop House and Good Drug Store

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335–339 Bridge St. - Built ca. 1869 on lot #150 in the original Haldeman plan, this is one of the oldest buildings in New Cumberland. Please note the metal roof and Victorian gingerbread elements. Jacob Warren Roop (1842–1908, buried Highspire Cemetery) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1868, and practiced medicine in New Cumberland during the 1870s and 1880s. He was also a president of the Dauphin County Medical Society. The building later became the offices of the Good Family of physicians. In the 1930s pharmacist J. Edison Good and dentist Chester Good removed part of the first floor and built a pharmacy in an art deco design.

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403-405 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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403–405 Bridge St. - This brick home was originally built as two stories sometime around 1870 on Haldeman lot #s 151 and 152 on land owned by Jacob Rife. It was originally a slaughterhouse and later the property to the rear was an icehouse and meat market (now 225 Fourth Street). The original configuration was added to over the years with a front brick addition between 1896 and 1902. It became a duplex by 1908, and between 1902 and 1921 a half-story was added to the roof. The gables facing the street feature trefoils. It is one of the oldest structures in New Cumberland. The property is still partially owned by the Good Family. It was the home of Dr. John F. Good (1857–1936) an 1886 graduate of the Baltimore College of Physicians. That same year, Good began his practice on this site and also a pharmacy in the Roop House across Fourth Street (see #31). He took care of New Cumberland citizens, including 1918 Flu Epidemic victims, until his death in 1936. He married Rebecca Jane Eichinger. Three of their four children became physicians: Dr. John L. Good (1890–1923), who practiced in Harrisburg, and served as chief resident at Harrisburg Hospital plus physician to the New Cumberland Army Depot; Dr. J. Edison Good (1893–1973), New Cumberland druggist; and Dr. Chester Good (1898–1991), a Harrisburg dentist. Daughter and schoolteacher Catherine E. Good (1903–94) taught at John Harris High School in Harrisburg and was active in the New Cumberland Public Library.

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415 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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415 Bridge Street - This church has its roots when a group organized in a log cabin along Marsh Run, York County, in 1855. The church grew into Mt. Olivet Church, which stood at the entrance to Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The congregation’s continued growth led to the establishment of a new building in New Cumberland at Bridge between Fourth and Fifth in 1873 as a United Brethren Church. In 1906, the original building was razed and the present one dedicated in 1906. At that point, it had become a Methodist Church. In 1968, the national Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren Churches merged to create the United Methodist Church.
In recent years, Trinity took over a residential dwelling on the right side of the church and had it faced with the yellow buff brick as the 1906 structure.

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422 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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422 Bridge St. - Erected in 1897 and designed by Harrisburg architect George W. Strite (d. 1899, buried Mt. Olivet Cemetery). James Davis is listed in the 1910 census as an ironworker at the “Steel Works,” the Bethlehem Works at Steelton. The house retains much of its original exterior and includes an outbuilding. The base wall of the outbuilding is rumored to be made of stones salvaged from the fire that destroyed the first Pennsylvania Capitol Building in February 1897.

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SW corner of 5th and Bridge - A small white frame wooden building was here at least by 1902, listed on Sanborn maps as “Hose Co.” and used by the fire company. It was also an early school. By 1908 the structure had expanded and were the borough offices. By the 1920s the town jail was in the rear of the building. Borough offices were moved to Seventh and Reno around 1960. The building stood here until the mid-1960s when it was torn down by Quentin Shelly, who erected Shelly’s Sporting Goods on the spot.

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503 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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503 Bridge St. - A school has been at this site since 1855. The present building was completed around 1895. Additions were built in 1904 with two rooms on the east, and in 1913 two rooms to the southwest. The school closed when Hillside Elementary was built in the 1950s. The building was renovated in the 1980s as a business complex. It was sometimes known as Green Hill College or the Fifth Street School.

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518 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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518 Bridge Street - Built in 1920 as a wooden frame building with stucco applied. This structure is in the Craftsman architectural style popular between ca. 1890–1930. At some point the front porch was enclosed. An interesting porch feature is the lion’s head water drain. A garage/servant’s quarters was added in the rear sometime after 1921. The building is now businesses and apartments.

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530 Bridge Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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530 Bridge Street - Organized and chartered May 1, 1910, at the urging of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Western Pennsylvania Synod. Ground was broken August 9, 1910, and the first dedicatory service held Sunday February 26, 1910.

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This marks the northern limits of the original borough. There was a cemetery here, supposedly established when Jacob Haldeman laid out the town in 1814. Little is known about it. It appears on an 1872 map of the borough as lot #126 of Haldeman’s original town plan, then disappears from maps before 1890. The graves were moved to Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

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501 Market Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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Home of Nathan F. Reed (501 Market Street). Built sometime before 1906, the house was “built of light brick with light stone trimmings.” Nathan F. Reed (1858–1926, buried Mt. Olivet Cemetery) had a coal and wood business on the lot behind this home. The house has interesting ocular features in front and a niche on the side. In 1914, Reed donated $1,700 toward the purchase of the organ at Trinity United Bretheren Church.

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401-403 Market Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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This building was constructed about 1858 by Theodore Willetts. It was used as a post office and warehouse. The second story was known as Willett’s Hall and used for community events. In the early 1900s, it was a furniture and undertaking establishment run by Conrad L. Hale, who died in 1914 from formaldehyde poisoning. It was also the Site of the Frownfelter Murder. The building was a saloon during the 1930s known as “Doc’s Place.” On December 25, 1937, a drunken Charles E. Mobley, 26, entered the saloon and ordered a beer. Without provocation, he pulled out a pistol and shot and killed Leonard Frownfelter, the proprietor. Frownfelter, 42, had a wife and child and was a WWI veteran. He is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The building is rumored to be haunted.

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324 Market Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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Site of The Family Motion Picture Theatre

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Site of The Family Motion Picture Theatre

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324 Market Street - later the Cumberland Theatre, was located here from ca. 1912 to 1939. It was run by Frank J. Freistak, Sr. (born in Austria-Hungary, 1889–1949) and his family. The Freistaks then had the West Shore Theater built (#37). At some point this building was torn down and after which the site hosted several bars and restaurants, including Ned Kelly’s and later Puliti’s Italian Restaurant, which closed about 2010.

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Susquehanna River boat dock between Third Alley and Fourth Streets - A commercial ferry service chartered in 1886 operated here and was owned by various individuals over the years. Among other passengers, it shuttled steel laborers living in New Cumberland to the Bethlehem Steel Works in Steelton.

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315 Market Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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Built as an Empire style home in 1876 on a lot owned by the Eberly Family. It was sold at sheriff sale in 1888 to Dr. Henry W. Linebaugh, a town physician, who owned it for many years. The Devine Family lived here until 1972, then the Clemens Family bought it in 1976. The carriage house in the rear collapsed in 1994 and was rebuilt in its original design.

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210-212 3rd Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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210–212 Third St. - Samuel F. Prowell (1868– 1937, buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery) owned and operated a large general store here before 1890. He enlarged it in 1906. Prowell lived in the apartments on the second floor. The building also hosted for a time Harry Shaver’s Tavern and then the Cumberland Tavern. The building was renovated in 2019 for business and apartments.

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208 Third St. - George W. Brady (1872–1928) of Carlisle, was a cigar dealer who opened a cigar store, restaurant, and pool hall here around 1900. It replaced an earlier pool hall near the train station at the bottom of Third Street. This brick building was present by 1902. By 1921 a bowling alley had been added. In the 1930s it became “Bucky” Snyder’s Drug Store where you could also buy ice cream, a treat in the days before home freezers. By 1945, Gilbert Beckley and John Hobart purchased the store and called it the “B & H Cut-Rate,” which lasted until the 1960s. Since then it has had various uses, including a temporary home for the American Legion.

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205-209 3rd Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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Built between 1900–1902, the building has always housed various businesses. An early enterprise was the Dreamland Moving-Picture Theater (1907–ca. 1910), a nickelodeon and New Cumberland’s first movie theater, owned by George Heffelman. An even earlier motion picture theatre was on Third at Market, on the grassy area to the right of Semoff ’s Barber Shop. Semoff ’s, originally on Sixth Street, has been at this location for over ninety years. The building was also once the location of the town post office. Note the architectural finials on the front corners of the roof.

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308 Market Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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308 Market Street - John White Geary (December 30, 1819–February 8, 1873), born in Westmoreland Co., PA, was a veteran of the Mexican War; Alcalde, then the first Mayor of San Francisco (1850–51); third Territorial Governor of Kansas (1856–57); Union Army Brigadier General (1861–65); and two-time Governor of Pennsylvania (1867–73). His second marriage was to Mary Church, and in 1861 moved into the former Church Family home here. He and his family lived in this brick house from 1861–67, though he was often absent during the war. He died three weeks after leaving the governor’s office at his Harrisburg home on February 8, 1873. He was only 53 years old and is buried in Harrisburg Cemetery. Geary Avenue, located three blocks west, is named for him. A prominent street in San Francisco, Geary Street, is also named for him.

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Veterans of Foreign Wars, 3rd Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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Fox–Eichelberger VFW Post 7415, now at the site of the
Eberly Mill and Railroad Depot, was established in 1946. It was named for Navy Ensign Lee Fox Jr. (b. 1920), and Private Paul Eichelberger (born 1921), both of New Cumberland. They both died in action defending Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
• Fox was killed in action December 7, 1941, defending the
Kaneohe Naval Air Station. A graduate of New Cumberland
High School, Fox was a bomber pilot in the Naval Aviation
Corps. His body was never found. The USS Lee Fox (DE-65/
ADP-45), a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in his honor.
• Paul Eichelberger, a member of the US Army Air Corps, was hit by a bomb fragment at Hickham Field near Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. He was taken to a hospital where he died December 9. Only 20 years old, he was a graduate of New Cumberland High School and enlisted in June 1941 immediately upon graduation. He is buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu.

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Disaster at Lee and Eberly’s Planing and Saw Mill

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Disaster at Lee and Eberly’s Planing and Saw Mill

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On September 22, 1863, a steam boiler blew up at this site, killing four workers outright. Part of the boiler flew through the air and hit and killed Mrs. Falcker, proprietor of Falcker’s Tavern
about 250 feet from the mill. The mill was at the northeastern
corner of Third Street at the river.

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Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Train passed through New Cumberland on February 21, 1861 on the Northern Central Railway, shortly after 9 am after having departed from Harrisburg, en route to York and Baltimore.
Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Train passed through New Cumberland on April 21, 1865. The funeral special came through going northbound, passing New Cumberland at approximately 7:22 pm while en route to Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin was onboard having been picked up at the Maryland/PA state line earlier after the train’s departure from Baltimore.
President James Garfield’s Funeral Train passed through here September 18, 1881, as did William McKinley’s on September 16, 1901, at about 5:00pm.

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The Cumberland Valley Railroad opened in November 1837 from Harrisburg-Lemoyne-Mechanicsburg. In 1915 it was absorbed by the PRR although it had been leased by them for several years previously. This line was situated just north of New Cumberland and ran east-west. The last version of the New Cumberland Railway Depot was built in 1886 and torn down in 1966. It was a small combination passenger/freight
wooden-framed depot.

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The depot was situated along the Northern Central Railway (NCRR) Line, which opened in 1848 as the York and Cumberland Depot from York to Bridgeport (Lemoyne), thence to Harrisburg. Later, sometime after 1906 when the Enola branch was built, a parallel Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) line was built to the NCRR that went through New Cumberland. That was the York Haven Line of the PRR, 16.3 miles in length which ran from Waco Junction (just south of York Haven) to Enola. New Cumberland was officially Milepost 81.2 (as measured from Calvert Station in Baltimore, the terminus).

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1888, SE side of Third and Water Sts. - Chartered in 1887 as the Bowers Logan Manufacturing Company, it produced woolen blankets. It was re-chartered in 1888 as the Susquehanna Woolen Mill. The first president was George W. Buttorff. It went out of business in 1942. The main building burned in 1972 and was torn down. Company records and examples of the blankets produced by the woolen mill are at the Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle.

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301 Market Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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301 Market Street - Built as a family dwelling in 1870 by lumber merchant Christian Eberly of Eberly’s Mills. He sold it to his brother, the Rev. Daniel Eberly in 1872. Daniel Eberly was the pastor of Trinity United Brethren Church on Bridge Street. The Empire style brick home later housed the John B. Kauffman General Store from1878 to 1914, and several other businesses, including the Smith Framing Shop, over the years.

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202 3rd Street - Built around 1830 and possibly the oldest surviving building in downtown. Earlier known as the Mumper Hotel. It was restored and rededicated in 2011, and now houses senior apartments.

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Built in 1830 on land donated by Jacob Haldeman. It was a Methodist Church and the building lasted until 1881. The congregation moved to a new church at 206 Bridge Street in 1861.

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214 Market Street, New Cumberland, PA, USA

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The post is named for Private William Henry Nauss (1900–18), a member of Co. C, 112th Inf. A. E. F., World War I. He died in action crossing the Vesle River during the Battle of Fismes in France August 9, 1918. He was two months short of his eighteenth birthday. Nauss had enlisted in July 1917 at age 16 with the consent of his parents and was the first New Cumberlander killed in the war. He is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Post 143, established in 1919, was at various locations in New Cumberland over the years until it broke ground for this present building on August 10, 1996.

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The original site, on the north end of the block, was J. Oren’s Spoke Factory, a wooden building, ca. 1890–96. By 1902 it was Samuel Mumper’s Coal Yard. The original brick building on this site, built between 1896–1902, was the New Cumberland Knitting Company, a manufacturer of men’s hosiery. By 1913, an addition was made on the south end of the block. The Knitting Mill was a Joseph J. Baughman enterprise. In 1902, the famous Camelback Covered Bridge at Harrisburg was swept away in a flood, and some of the timbers from that bridge were acquired by Mr. Baughman and are part of that building. After Baughman died, the building was vacant for many years. In 1935, brothers Charles G. Stone and Jerry G. Stone wanted the building for their growing cigar box manufacturing business. They bought the building from the Baughman trust for $5,000, and had the south end enlarged in 1967. They operated the business there until 1983. It passed through several owners before becoming the home of the Anderson Chimney Co.

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John Poist built a house here on lot #53 of Haldeman’s town plan. In 1815 he applied to the county government for a tavern license. Poist was tavernkeeper until he died in 1823, at which time, his son John Jr. kept it until 1830. Jacob Baxstresser then ran the tavern between 1831–34, followed by John Orr 1835–38, and finally John Sourbeck, 1839–40. Dr. Asa White acquired it sometime thereafter. It was where the Allen Township elections were held.

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Lumber companies as far away as Williamsport floated their logs down the Susquehanna in the nineteenth century and some wound up in New Cumberland to be sawed and planed. On July 19, 1890, an extensive fire destroyed this wooden mill and also several dwellings and other factories. During the fire, Thomas Snell of New Market (who worked at Bethlehem Steel across the river), in trying to reach the third-floor offices, fell off a ladder and died. He left a wife and six children.

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John Grimes (1842–1916), born in Strinestown, York County, operated a blacksmith shop here from about 1870 up to his death in 1916. His home was directly across Front Street, on the northeast corner of Front and Maple. He was a member of Baughman Methodist Church, International Order of Odd Fellows, and other fraternal and social organizations. He is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. By the 1920s the building had been replaced by an auto repair shop.

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Site of Ross Rag Carpet Mill; Buttorff and Kline General Store; and “R-Own” Cut Glass Works

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Site of Ross Rag Carpet Mill; Buttorff and Kline General Store; and “R-Own” Cut Glass Works

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Built of brick as a factory building in 1868 by Andrew Ross, it was a carpet mill and later a general store; by 1900 it was owned by George W. Buttorff (1839–1922) and Robert Kline as a carpet and weaving factory, then a general store. By 1920 it was the “R-Own” Cut Glass Company. By 1921 it was vacant and demolished sometime shortly thereafter.

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Iron Bridge. Erected by the old state Department of Highways in 1936 to replace an earlier Whipple metal truss bridge (built ca.1889) damaged by the 1936 Flood. The present bridge is a single span and 154' long and is a rivet-connected steel Parker through-truss bridge. They were extensively built by the state highway department in the 1920s and 30s. Ninety of them still remain in Pennsylvania (as of 2022), of which this is one. If you walk across the left side of the bridge from New Cumberland into York County, please note the markings on the girders to measure flood stages. Site of Early Stone Bridge (either Market or Bridge St. at Yellow
Breeches Creek). A stone bridge with five arches erected ca. 1814 crossed the creek here and into New Market, York Co. It was part of a stagecoach line from York. Author Charles Dickens passed through here on March 24, 1842, riding the stage on his way to Harrisburg from Baltimore during his first American tour. These bridges, and Bridge Street, carried all the traffic from Harrisburg
to York and Baltimore until the construction of I–83 in the 1960s.

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The Yellow Breeches is a world-renowned limestone trout stream originating on South Mountain in the Michaux State Forest. It is also fed by LeTort’s Spring in Carlisle, travels the eastern length of the Cumberland Valley and meets the Susquehanna here. Yellow “Breeches” is possibly a corruption of the word “Beeches.” Another story says it was so named as for it became the color of one’s pants as you waded across the silty creek.