CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., borough and county-seat of Franklin County, on the Cone cocheague and Falling creeks and the Cum berland Valley and Western Maryland and the Philadelphia and Reading railroads, 49 miles west-southwest of Harrisburg. In Early's raid in the Civil War General McCausland entered Chambersburg with Confederate cavalry, 30 July 1864, and demanded a tribute of $100,000 gold; this not being paid the place was set on fire and two-thirds of it burned, causing a loss of $1,000,000. It was soon rebuilt, chiefly of brick or stone, and is now the seat of Wilson College for women, and has an academy, sev eral churches and newspapers, public schools, two national banks and an assessed property valuation of $3,000,000. There are manufac tures of hosiery,. flour, furniture, wool, dresses, paper, iron, milling machinery; engines, boilers, soap, steam and hydraulic machinery, iron castings, silk, ice and condensed milk; and the shops of the Cumberland Valley Railroad are situated here. The United States census of
manufactures for 1914 recorded 59 industrial establishments of factory grade, employing 1,920 persons, of whom 1,649 are wage earners, receiving annually $755,000 in wages. The capital invested aggregated $3,740,000, and the year's output was worth $3,075,000: of this, $1,528,000 was the value added by manufacture. In the environs blue limestone, freestone and marble abound. Its government provides for a chief burgess, elected for three years, and a borough council. Chambersburg was first set tled (in 1730) by Benjamin Chambers, an im migrant from Ireland, and was for many years called °Falling It was incorporated in 1803. Pop. 12,000.