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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM40A_presidential-convention_Harrisburg-PA.html
The Whig Convention of Dec. 1839 met in this church and nominated Wm. Henry Harrison for president, John Tyler for vice-president. Popularized as "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", they were elected, 1840.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM409_mulberry-street-bridge_Halifax-PA.html
The linkage of downtown Harrisburg with the emerging Allsion Hill at this location was established in 1891 with the opening of the original Mulberry Street Bridge. Hailed at that time by Harrisburg civic leader J. Horace McFarland as "the day Grea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM408_t-morris-chester_Harrisburg-PA.html
Journalist, educator, lawyer. Born here, 1834. Taught in Liberia, 1857-61. Recruited Black soldiers in Civil War; noted as war correspondent. In Europe for freedmen's aid; was admitted to the English bar in 1870. Held major posts in Louisiana, 187…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM407_kunkel-building_Harrisburg-PA.html
This building was erected in 1914 as the home of the Mechanics Trust Company, a Harrisburg bank that later went "bust" during the Depression. the Bank was one of many of the era that made Harrisburg the region's financial center, a role the city h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM406_lochiel-hotel-and-colonial-theater_Harrisburg-PA.html
This building was erected in 1835 in the Greek Revival architectural style and was originally known as the Wilson Hotel. Such notables as Daniel Webster and singer Jenny Lind stayed here. It was a nationally known favorite of 19th Century politica…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM405_strawberry-square-phase-ii_Harrisburg-PA.html
This block of historic buildings traces a glimpse of Harrisburg's 19th and 20th Century retail development. Restored as Phase II of the Strawberry Square shopping complex in the late 1980's and part of the Old Downtown Harrisburg Commercial Histor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM404_whitaker-center-for-science-and-the-arts_Harrisburg-PA.html
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, which opened September 9, 1999, is the successful culmination of decades worth of community effort to develop a major performing arts and science center in downtown Harrisburg. The resources which were bro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM403_provident-savings-bank_Baltimore-MD.html
This imposing building, appropriately designed by Joseph Evans Sperry to suggest an old treasure chest, is the home of Provident Savings bank, the father of branch banking among mutual savings banks of the nation. Incorporated in 1886 with the exa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM402_old-dauphin-county-courthouses_Harrisburg-PA.html
Two Dauphin County Courthouses occupied this site at the intersection of Market St. and what was originally known as Raspberry Street, later appropriately renamed Court Street. John Harris, Jr.'s original plan for Harrisburg set aside this land fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM401_a-beloved-general_Baltimore-MD.html
"...and I fell pride in the belief that the stand made on Monday, in no small degree, tended to check the temerity of the foe, daring to invade a country like ours, and designing the destruction of our city..."Brig. Gen. John Stricker writing to M…