Carlisle, in Cumberland County, played an important part in the early
history of the United States. The first white man in the Cumberland
Valley established a trading post at Carlisle in 1720.
On property now known as Carlisle Barracks, a munitions works supplied
the Revolutionary Army. At the time of the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794,
President Washington assembled his army at Carlisle. During the Civil
War the Confederate Army reached its northernmost point at Carlisle.
[Illustration: MOLLY PITCHER MONUMENT—CARLISLE]