Recollections of Chambersburg (Soft Bound)

Excerpt from Recollections of Chambersburg, Pa: Chiefly Between the Years 1830-1850

These Recollections of Chambersburg have been written for the purpose of giving the present inhabitants of the town some knowledge of the buildings that existed here from fifty to seventy years ago, with the uses to which they were put, and some acquaintance with. The people who lived here at that time. The great change that has taken place in the town itself will be appreciated by any person who, with a copy of this book in his hand, will take his stand in a square of any of the principal streets and compare the picture it now presents to his eye with the picture of it presented in these Recollections. Nor will he be much less struck with the change in population, for he will observe that few of the families once prominent in the professions, in business, in public life or in politics, are represented here now.

Most of the larger and finer buildings that existed here before the great fire of 1864, were erected between the years 1810 and 1830, but a large number of those described dated from a much earlier period.

The town gives evidence of healthy growth. It has not only been built up closer within its old limits, but has extended in all directions, and the improvements outside of the line of fire are in keeping with those Within it. In thus rebuilding and extending it, its inhabitants have reared a splendid monument to themselves.