The Franklin Furnace Historic District, Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike Road Company Toll House, and Woodland are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Chambersburg is at the core of the Chambersburg Micropolitan Statistical Area which includes surrounding Franklin County.

This was that state officials knew of this vital intelligence, which Pomeroy had carried for nearly sixty miles from near Lee's headquarters in Chambersburg.

The earliest mention of such parties appears to have been in the March 8, 2002 issue of the newspaper Public Opinion ( Chambersburg, PA ), which said this was occurring " in some communities ".

After Lee's army had withdrawn back to Virginia, Stuart performed another of his audacious circumnavigations of the Army of the Potomac — 120 miles in under 60 hours, from Leesburg, Virginia, to as far north as Chambersburg and Mercersburg, Pennsylvania — once again embarrassing his Union opponents and seizing horses and supplies, but at the expense of exhausted men and animals, without gaining much military advantage.

The Forbes Road developed into part of the main road connecting Pittsburg and Philadelphia, and much later into US 30, and Chambersburg developed as a transportation hub at the crossroads of Forbes Road and the Great Wagon Road.

From June 24 – 28, 1863, much of the Army of Northern Virginia passed through Chambersburg en route to Carlisle and Gettysburg, and Robert E. Lee established his headquarters at a nearby farm.

* 324th Military Police Battalion, Pennsylvania Army National Guard from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Robert E. Lee established his headquarters on the ridge just north of the Chambersburg pike, and the ridge also served as the Confederate line of battle for July 2 & 3 attacks against Union Army positions on Cemetery Ridge.

John McCausland, Jr. ( September 13, 1836 – January 22, 1927 ) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, famous for the ransom of Hagerstown, Maryland, and the razing of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War.

Under Early's orders, on July 30, 1864, McCausland burned the town of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in retaliation for the destruction of private property by Union Army Major General David Hunter in the Shenandoah Valley, including the burning of the Virginia Military Institute.

In America, civil war between the Confederacy of the South and the Northern states led to massive deaths and the destruction of cities such as Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Richmond, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia.

Civil War era sites and events in this region include Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Manassas, Virginia, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, the Valley Campaign, the Valley Campaigns of 1864, the Battles of Chattanooga, and the Gettysburg Campaign.

When the book was discovered in September 1822, Pati took her children out of Virginia to Chambersburg in the free state of Pennsylvania to ensure their continued freedom.

As a result, Early was able to launch the Confederacy's last major raid into northern territory, attacking the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Maryland and West Virginia and burning Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in retaliation for the burning of some civilian houses and farms earlier in the campaign.

In doing so he allowed the Confederates to raid and burn Chambersburg virtually unopposed and then make off for Cumberland and West Virginia

In some operations, forces were pushed to the limit ( such as Jeb Stuart's raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1862, where his troopers marched 80 miles ( 130 km ) in 27 hours ).

Chambersburg is located along the Lincoln Highway, U. S. 30, between McConnellsburg and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and along U. S. 11, the Molly Pitcher Highway, between Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, and Hagerstown, Maryland.

On July 1, 1863, his division moved in support of Maj. Gen. Henry Heth's division down the Chambersburg Pike towards Gettysburg.

The 1761 Samuel Gettys tavern was built near the ridge at the crossroads east of Stevens Creek, and it preceded both the c. 1812 construction of the Chambersburg Pike across the ridge and the nearby " Gettysburg Theological Seminary " being established on the ridge on August 1, 1926.

At the Battle of Gettysburg, Brockenbrough's brigade was in the rear of Heth's column during the march on the Chambersburg Pike, July 1, 1863, and thus missed the morning attacks against the Union cavalry and the I Corps.

Chambersburg is the county seat and largest municipality in Franklin County.

The county is divided into seventeen townships: Barringer, Bethany, Chambersburg, Concord, Coddle Creek, Cool Springs, Davidson, Eagle Mills, Fallstown, New Hope, Olin, Sharpesburg, Shiloh, Statesville, Turnersburg, Union Grove Harmony

Chambersburg is a borough in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States.

Chambersburg is the county seat of Franklin County.

When combined with the surrounding Greene, Hamilton, and Guilford Townships, the population of Greater Chambersburg is 52, 273.

Waynesboro is in the Cumberland Valley between Hagerstown, Maryland, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

* Rhodes Grove Camp is a campground located near Chambersburg, Pa.

He is currently buried at Rocky Spring Churchyard, near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Thomas Dale Brookens ( born August 10, 1953, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania ) is a former third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Detroit Tigers ( 1979 – 1988 ), New York Yankees ( 1989 ), and Cleveland Indians ( 1990 ).

WBYO is simulcast on 88. 1 MHz WZXM in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 88. 1 MHz WZZD in Warwick, Pennsylvania, 88. 3 MHz WZXQ in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 88. 7 MHz WBYX in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 89. 1 MHz WBYH in Hawley, Pennsylvania, 90. 9 MHz WZZH in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, 91. 9 MHz WYTL in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, and 91. 7 MHz WZXH in Hagerstown.

* a British military trail built in 1758 by General John Forbes of England from Chambersburg to Pittsburgh during the French and Indian War, later known as the Pittsburgh Road and the Conestoga Road

Portions of the township were taken to form Chambersburg borough ( April 1, 1872, annexed by Trenton in 1888 ) and Wilbur borough ( April 24, 1891, annexed by Trenton in 1898 ).

Until the completion of the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line in 1857, the fastest route from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia was by stagecoach from Pittsburgh to Chambersburg, and then by train to Philadelphia.

The following year, Chambersburg was invaded for a third time, as cavalry dispatched from the Shenandoah Valley by Jubal Early arrived.

It had been delayed by the assignment of guarding the Confederate lines of communication through Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Conversely, an exhaustive firing test of the M1918 Chauchat in. 30-06 was also carried out in 1994 near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, by R. Keller and W. Garofalo.

Within Hoosier National Forest, two miles ( 3 km ) south of Chambersburg, lies the former Lick Creek Settlement Site, a settlement of free blacks led by the Quaker Jonathan Lindley from around 1819 to around 1865.

With the Shenandoah Valley clear of Union forces, Early launched a raid into northern territory, the last made by a substantial Confederate force during the war, burning Chambersburg, Pennsylvania as retribution for David Hunter's burning of civilian houses and farms earlier in the campaign.

Confederate cavalry returning from the Chambersburg burning were ambushed and defeated by Union cavalry.

A British military trail was built in 1758 by General John Forbes from Chambersburg to Pittsburgh during the French and Indian War.

He faced arson charges for the burning of Chambersburg, but was pardoned by President Ulysses S. Grant.