Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Carlisle is a borough and the county seat of Cumberland County in south-central Pennsylvania, United States, lying in the Cumberland Valley about 20 miles west-southwest of Harrisburg. The settlement, at the crossing of several Indigenous trails, was designated by the Pennsylvania assembly and the Penn family in 1751 as the seat of Cumberland County, and a stockade built in 1753 became Carlisle Fort in 1755. Dickinson College, developed from Carlisle Grammar School in 1773 by Benjamin Rush, was the first new college founded in the newly recognized United States, and the Dickinson School of Law dates from 1834. Carlisle Barracks, one of the oldest US Army installations, is home to the US Army War College, and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened there in 1879. The 2020 census counted 20,118 residents; the borough sits at an elevation of 146 metres and has a humid continental climate.