The newspaper, part of the CN Group, has lined up a year-long series of events to mark its bicentenary, with special publications for the anniversary.
It reprinted the four page first edition - which warned of an impending "great battle" 15 days before Waterloo - last week. And this week it has a celebration supplement looking back at the newspaper's archive, its most significant moments and also to the future.
In a direct link to the newspaper's heritage, the current Dean of Carlisle, the Very Reverend Mark Boyling, will be asked to set the presses rolling for this Thursday's edition in front of specially invited guests. The 1815 Dean, Isaac Milner, was the driving force behind The Patriot, which he started as a means to tackle "growing evil" in his city.
Other events lined up for the anniversary include the cutting of a giant CN cake, a £5,000 donation to a local charity, a staff celebration and a major photographic exhibition in Carlisle later in the year.
The paper's readers have already raised £20,000 for a CN200 appeal to buy life-saving kit for the Pride of Cumbria air ambulance.
David Helliwell, editor of The Cumberland News, said: "We want to reach as many parts of our community as possible through these celebrations and show people everything that's been achieved over the years through appeals, campaigns and great journalism.
"It's a great opportunity to dust off some of the editions and articles that haven't had an audience for years. We're using social media this week to Tweet out some great pictures that deserve another airing.
"We've also had a lot of local interest in the 1815 reprint. People seem more fascinated by a small piece about the elopement of a local army captain and teenage girl than the Duke of Wellington's letter home just days before defeating Napoleon in one of European history's defining moments."
