Cumberland Compact Cumberland Compact The Cumberland Compact was both based on the earlier Articles of the Watauga Association composed athletic training for the first year and then the second half to get back into work present day Elizabethton, Tennessee and is a foundation document of the Tennessee State Constitution. Signed on May 13, 1780, by early settlers led to the Cumberland River area by James Robertson and John Donelson, where they settled Fort Nashborough, which would later become Nashville, Tennessee. The only surviving copy the Cumberland Compact was discovered in 1846 inside a trunk that once belonged to Samuel Barton.The copy in
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania summer of 1863, Confederate troops marched through the Cumberland Valley, briefly occupying much of Cumberland County. In the 20th century, the suburbs of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the state capital, expanded extensively into eastern Cumberland County. Carlisle also developed suburbs in adjoining townships. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.9%) is water. It has a hot-summer humid continental climate ("Dfa") and its hardiness zone is 6b except in much of the eastern portion where it is 7a. The area code is 717 with an overlay of 223. As of