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The Franklin County Career and Technology Center is vocational high school located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It serves Grades 10-12. The program at FCCTC includes half a year of academics and half a year of shop. It has six participating school districts.
The school is run by a joint operating committee made up of representatives from the participating school districts. One each from Greencastle-Antrim, Shippensburg, and Fannett-Metal; two from Waynesboro, and three from Chambersburg. FCCTC does have its own principal.
Franklin County is a county located in South Central Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 149,618. Its county seat is Chambersburg.
Antrim Township is a township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 14,893 at the 2010 census, up from 12,504 at the 2000 census. It was named after County Antrim in Northern Ireland.
Chambersburg is a borough in and the county seat of Franklin County, in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States. It is in the Cumberland Valley, which is part of the Great Appalachian Valley, and 13 miles (21 km) north of Maryland and the Mason-Dixon line and 52 miles (84 km) southwest of Harrisburg, the state capital. According to the United States Census Bureau, Chambersburg's 2010 population was 20,268. When combined with the surrounding Greene, Hamilton, and Guilford Townships, the population of Greater Chambersburg is 52,273 people. The Chambersburg, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area includes surrounding Franklin County, and in 2010 included 149,618 people.
Greencastle is a borough in Franklin County in south-central Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,996 at the 2010 census. Greencastle lies within the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania.
Quincy Township is a township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,541 at the 2010 census, down from 5,846 at the 2000 census.
Washington Township is a township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 14,009 at the 2010 census, up from 11,559 at the 2000 census.
The Cumberland Valley is a northern constituent valley of the Great Appalachian Valley, within the Atlantic Seaboard watershed in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The Appalachian Trail crosses through the valley.
Conococheague Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River, is a free-flowing stream that originates in Pennsylvania and empties into the Potomac River near Williamsport, Maryland. It is 80 miles (129 km) in length, with 57 miles (92 km) in Pennsylvania and 23 miles (37 km) in Maryland. The watershed of Conococheague Creek has an area of approximately 566 square miles (1,470 km2), out of which only 65 square miles (170 km2) are in Maryland.
Chambersburg Area Senior High School (CASHS) is a public high school located in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The school serves grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. Students come from Chambersburg and surrounding townships of Hamilton, Greene, Lurgan, Letterkenny and Guilford. CASHS is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
The Lurgan Branch is a railroad line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and Maryland. The line is part of the NS Harrisburg Division and runs from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania southwest to Hagerstown, Maryland along former Reading Company and Pennsylvania Railroad lines. Its northeast end is at a junction with the Harrisburg Line, Pittsburgh Line, Royalton Branch, and Amtrak's Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line; its southwest end is at the beginning of the Hagerstown District. At Lemoyne it intersects the Enola Branch.
The Chambersburg, Greencastle & Waynesboro Street Railway, now defunct, was an American railroad of south central Pennsylvania built in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Waynecastle is a very small village between Waynesboro and Greencastle in Antrim Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It is home to a historic grain elevator that was used for the Western Maryland Railroad. The area also has a small railroad trestle that runs over route 16. The railroad tracks are still used by CSX. Trains go by several times a day. The Grain elevator building is home to the Waynesboro Model Railroad Club inc.
The Greencastle Antrim School District is a medium, rural, public school district located in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses the borough of Greencastle and the surrounding Antrim Township. Greencastle Antrim School District encompasses approximately 93 square miles (240 km2). According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 16,226 people. By 2010, the District's population increased to 18,916 people. According to the US Census Bureau, in 2009, the District residents' per capita income was $19,566, while the median family income was $49,318. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010.
The Fannett-Metal School District is a diminutive, rural, public school district that serves Fannett and Metal townships in Franklin County, as well as a small portion of Toboyne Township in Perry County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses approximately 128 square miles (330 km2). According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 4,091. According to 2010 local census data, it serves a resident population of 4,426. The educational attainment levels for the School District population were 72% high school graduates and 9.2% college graduates. In 2009, the District residents’ per capita income was $15,304, while the median family income was $38,165. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100. In Franklin County the median household income was $51,035.
The Blue Ridge League was the name of two minor league baseball organizations that operated in the first half of the twentieth century in the United States.
Benjamin Matthias Nead (1847–1923) was an American historian, author, newspaper editor, lawyer, and politician.
The Chambersburg and Gettysburg Electric Railway was an interurban trolley system of the early 20th century in south central Pennsylvania. Built in 1903, the line ran from Chambersburg eastward to Caledonia State Park. The line was to be extended to Gettysburg, but the cost of dealing with the steep grades on that section prevented completion. Due to disputes over line crossings with the Pennsylvania Railroad, the line did not open until 1905. It operated until December 21, 1926.
The Chambersburg and Shippensburg Railway was an interurban trolley system of the early 20th century in south central Pennsylvania. Built in 1914, the line ran from Chambersburg to Shippensburg. The line was abandoned at the same time as much of the nearby Chambersburg, Greencastle and Waynesboro Street Railway, on July 31, 1926.
The Cumberland Railway was an interurban trolley system of the early 20th century in central Pennsylvania. Built in 1908, the line ran 12 miles (19 km) from Carlisle to Newville. Poorly capitalized, the line failed in 1918 and was scrapped.
WRGG-LP is a Full-Service and Oldies broadcast radio station licensed to Greencastle, Pennsylvania, serving Greencastle, Antrim Township, and southern Franklin County in Pennsylvania. WRGG-LP is owned and operated by the Greencastle-Antrim Education Foundation.