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Carlisle is a borough and the county seat of Cumberland County, set in Pennsylvania's fertile Cumberland Valley within the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan area.

Carlisle was laid out in 1751 by surveyor John Armstrong Sr. at the crossing of several Indigenous trails and was designated the seat of the newly created Cumberland County.

Carlisle had 20,118 residents at the 2020 census, while about 37,700 people live in the wider Carlisle urban cluster including its suburbs.

Carlisle has about 9,223 households, but only about 48.7% of its homes are owner-occupied — a renter-heavy mix shaped by its college students and Army personnel.

Carlisle is home to Dickinson College, which grew out of a grammar school promoted by Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Rush in 1773 and was chartered as the first new college founded in the newly recognized United States; President James Buchanan graduated from Dickinson in 1809.

Carlisle also hosts Penn State Dickinson Law, founded in 1834, which is the oldest law school in Pennsylvania and the fifth-oldest law school in the United States.

Carlisle Barracks, whose first structures went up in 1757 during the French and Indian War, is among the oldest active U.S. Army posts in the country and is home to the U.S. Army War College, the Army's most senior military educational institution.

From 1879 to 1918, the Carlisle Barracks operated the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the first off-reservation boarding school created by the federal government to educate and assimilate Native American children.

President George Washington traveled to Carlisle in 1794 to review the troops gathered there to march west and suppress the Whiskey Rebellion.

Carlisle was briefly occupied by Confederate forces in 1863, in the days immediately before the Battle of Gettysburg.