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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.
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.
Franklin County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 155,932. [1] Its county seat is Chambersburg. [2]Franklin County comprises the Chambersburg–Waynesboro, PA metropolitan statistical area, which is also included in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
Chambersburg Historic District: Chambersburg Historic District: August 26, 1982 : U.S. Routes 11 and 30: Chambersburg: 11: Church Hill Farm: Church Hill Farm: December 2, 1980 : Northeast of Mercersburg at 8941 Kings Lane
Guilford Township is in eastern Franklin County, bordered to the east by Adams County and to the northwest by the borough of Chambersburg, the Franklin County seat.Most of the township is in the Great Appalachian Valley, with the eastern portion occupied by several ridges that are part of South Mountain.
1770 map of the Province of Pennsylvania showing "Chamber's T.", the location of Fort Chambers, on the map's lower edge, at the center left, southwest of Shippensburg.. In "the winter and spring of 1756," [6]: 526 Chambers built a large stockade to protect his farm and mills, and constructed a main interior building of stone, two stories in height, with small windows. [7]
Pennsylvania Route 316 (PA 316) is a 16.6-mile-long (26.7 km) state highway located in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.The southern terminus is at the Maryland state line near Waynesboro, where the road continues into that state as Maryland Route 60 (MD 60).
U.S. Route 30 passes through the community, leading east 2 miles (3 km) to Fayetteville and west 4 miles (6 km) to Chambersburg, the county seat. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2 ), all land.