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- Cumberland County was first settled by a majority of Scots-Irish immigrants who arrived in approximately 1730. English and German settlers constituted about ten percent of the early population. The settlers originally mostly devoted the area to farming and later developed other trades.
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Cumberland County was first settled by a majority of Scots-Irish immigrants who arrived in approximately 1730. English and German settlers constituted about ten percent of the early population. The settlers originally mostly devoted the area to farming and later developed other trades. [4]
The first human inhabitants of the region arrived between 12 and 18 thousand years ago.1 We know very little about them except they were probably related to the Algonquian tribes that settled north of Pennsylvania. These early peoples were most likely nomadic hunters living in temporary or base camps.
Susquehannocks. The first written description of Native Americans living along the Susquehanna River, which included the Cumberland Valley, was by John Smith in 1608. During his exploration of the Chesapeake Bay, John Smith sailed up the Susquehanna River to the fall line in Maryland.
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Shippensburg is the oldest community in Cumberland County and the second oldest in Pennsylvania (after York) west of the Susquehanna River. 3 In 1750, Cumberland County was formed with Shippensburg as the county seat.
Settlement on the lands that became Cumberland County began in 1737 when Blunston Licenses were issued. The Penn’s, who were not fond of the Scots-Irish, urged them to settle in the back country of Cumberland County.
Cumberland County was first settled by a majority of Scots-Irish immigrants who arrived in this area about 1730. English and German settlers constituted about ten percent of the early population.
Shippensburg is a borough in Cumberland and Franklin counties in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Settled in 1730, Shippensburg lies in the Cumberland Valley, 41 miles (66 km) southwest of Harrisburg, and is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,478 at the 2020 census.
