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In 2012, the company announced that it was opening a visitors' center in Guilford Township, just outside Chambersburg. The "Golden Roll" features Lloyd and Lois Martin's original garage bakery and other artifacts from the company's history. [5] [9] Jim Martin passed the role of president to his son, Tony, in July 2021.
75th Anniversary 10c postage stamp (1974). The VFW resulted from the amalgamation of several societies formed immediately following the Spanish–American War.In 1899, little groups of veterans returning from campaigning in Cuba and the Philippine Islands, founded local societies upon a spirit of comradeship known only to those who faced the dangers of that war side by side.
Chambersburg is a borough in and the county seat of Franklin County, in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States. [3] It is in the Cumberland Valley , which is part of the Great Appalachian Valley , and 13 miles (21 km) north of Maryland and the Mason-Dixon line and 52 miles (84 km) southwest of Harrisburg , the state capital.
This will be the 39th annual Vince Swint Community Thanksgiving Dinner in 2024.
Chambersburg Historic District is a national historic district centered on the Memorial Fountain and Square of Chambersburg in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 159 contributing buildings in the central business district and immediately surrounding residential area of Chambersburg.
This historic structure is a two-story, three-bay wide, clapboard-covered, hewn-log building. Abolitionist John Brown (1800–1859) stayed here from June until mid-October 1859, while receiving supplies and recruits for his raid on Harpers Ferry.
The 1913 Gettysburg reunion was a Gettysburg Battlefield encampment of American Civil War veterans for the Battle of Gettysburg's 50th anniversary. The June 29 – July 4 gathering of 53,407 veterans (about 8,750 Confederate) [1] was the largest Civil War veteran reunion. [2]
It all started in 1954 when a group of actors put on a production of "The Male Animal." In 1974, the Chambersburg Community Theatre gained nonprofit status. The Chambersburg Community Theatre performed drama's such as The Wizard of Oz and The Glass Menageire. The Chambersburg Community Theatre has not always been a part of the Capitol Theatre.