Area History: Early History of Shippensburg: Cumberland ...

village up to 1866, as well as to stop the march of time at 1866 itself and look. upon Shippensburg the year Messiah Church was established in Smiley's Shoe Store in. East King Street. Shippensburg, the oldest town in the Cumberland Valley, was started. about 1730. It is, therefore, the oldest town west of the "Long Crooked River," ................
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