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Chambersburg is a borough and the county seat of Franklin County, in the Cumberland Valley of south-central Pennsylvania, 13 miles north of the Mason-Dixon line and 52 miles southwest of Harrisburg.

Chambersburg's settlement began in 1730, when Scots-Irish immigrant Benjamin Chambers and his brothers built water-powered grist and saw mills at the confluence of Conococheague Creek and Falling Spring Creek.

The town of Chambersburg was laid out in 1764, with lots advertised for sale in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette, and the borough was incorporated on March 21, 1803.

Chambersburg has around 9,800 households, and its 2020 census population of 21,903 made it Pennsylvania's largest borough by fiscal size, ahead of every other borough in the Commonwealth.

Chambersburg was invaded three times during the Civil War, and Robert E. Lee made the decision to move east toward Gettysburg while in the town square in the summer of 1863.

On July 30, 1864, Confederate cavalry burned much of downtown Chambersburg, destroying about 550 buildings and leaving some 3,000 people homeless — making it the only major Northern community burned down by Confederate forces during the Civil War.

Chambersburg also figured in the events around John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and, a century earlier, in the Whiskey Rebellion and the French and Indian War frontier fighting.

Wilson College, a private liberal arts college founded in 1869, sits on a roughly 275-acre campus on Philadelphia Avenue inside the borough and is its largest university.

Public school students in Chambersburg attend the Chambersburg Area School District, whose 27,288 households span the borough and surrounding townships.

Chambersburg's 1818 Old Franklin County Jail, now home to the Kittochtinny Historical Society, is believed to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.