This domestic structure was first a tavern and briefly (1750–1751) the county courthouse when Shippensburg was the county seat before the government moved to the more central Carlisle. Here the local limestone is punctuated by large windows, perhaps a memory of the early darkness of winter in Scotland, while the roughly cut jack arches above
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Old Cumberland County Courthouse, Widow Piper's Tavern
1735; 1961 repairs. King and Queen sts.
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