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Shippensburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 324 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Shippensburg. Most of the contributing buildings date to the mid- to late-19th century, with a few dated ...
Shippensburg is located in south-central Pennsylvania primarily in Cumberland County, but extending west into Franklin County. U.S. Route 11 passes through the center of town as King Street; US 11 leads northeast 20 miles (32 km) to Carlisle, the Cumberland County seat, and southwest 11 miles (18 km) to Chambersburg, the Franklin County seat.
Shippensburg Township is a township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the borough of Shippensburg. The population of the township was 5,429 at the 2010 census, [4] up from 4,504 at the 2000 census. The township is the location of the majority of the property of Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.
The original house was built by Edward Shippen, III (1703-1781), who laid out Shippensburg and occupied the house on periodic visits to his trading companies. [3] This is where Anne Shippen was born in 1763 where her parents William and Alice Shippen lived. William Shippen lectured in anatomy and midwifery in a lecture theater which was just by ...
Pennsylvania Route 641 Truck (PA 641 Truck) is an 8.4-mile-long (13.5 km) truck route of PA 641 in Fannett Township in Franklin County that bypasses a winding section of PA 641 that crosses Kittatinny Mountain. PA 641 Truck begins at PA 641 by heading east-southeast on two-lane undivided Amberson Road, which is designated as State Route 4006 ...
Pennsylvania Route 997 (PA 997) is a 49.0-mile (78.9 km) route that is located in Franklin and Cumberland counties in central Pennsylvania in the United States. This route runs from the Maryland state line south of Waynesboro, where the road continues into that state as Maryland Route 64 (MD 64), north to PA 233 in the Upper Mifflin Township community of McCrea.
The township borders the borough of Shippensburg and neighboring Shippensburg Township on their north, east, and south. The northern half of the township is within the Cumberland Valley , while the southern half is occupied by South Mountain , with elevations exceeding 2,060 feet (630 m) in the Big Flat area of the mountain.
In 1937, PA 696 was extended north from Scotland to PA 641 in Newburg, replacing the section of PA 333 between Shippensburg and Newburg. The south end of the route was cut back to its current location at PA 997 in the 1960s, with the road between Chambersburg and Scotland becoming unnumbered.