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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM41S_payne-shoemaker-building_Harrisburg-PA.html
The economic prosperity enjoyed nationally throughout the 1920's was clearly not lost upon Harrisburg's downtown development. By the decade's climatic conclusion there would rise a new generation of buildings in the city - those not traditionally …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM41R_john-frederick-hartranft_Harrisburg-PA.html
1861 - Raised 4th and 51st Pennsylvania Volunteers1865 - Special Provost Marshall for Lincoln Conspirators1866 - 1879 Governor of Pennsylvania, State Constitution Revised1879 - Father of Modern National Guard of Pennsylvania1886 - Medal of Honor f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM41Q_104th-cavalry_Harrisburg-PA.html
This tablet erectedbyThe Veterans Associationof the 104th Cavalryand the active membersof the regimentin memory ofthe officers and menwho died in serviceof their countrydedicated 12 June 1971on the fiftieth anniversaryOrganization of the104th Armo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM41P_mexican-war-monument_Harrisburg-PA.html
Erected by the State of Pennsylvania 1868. Commemorative of her citizens who lost their lives during the War with Mexico in 1845, 47 & 48.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM41O_john-harris-gift_Harrisburg-PA.html
In 1785, the founder of Harrisburg set aside a four-acre lot, now this section of Capitol Park, to be held in trust for the use of the State. The Legislature accepted the gift, 1810, when it voted to make this city the capital.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM418_capitol-park_Harrisburg-PA.html
The deliberations during the first decade of the 19th Century through which Harrisburg prevailed in achieving State Capital status were in part spawned by the donation by John Harris, Jr., in 1785, of four acres of the oldest portion of Capitol Pa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM417_federal-square_Harrisburg-PA.html
One block northeast of Harrisburg's Market Square is located a place that became known by the end of the 19th century as Federal Square, the block bounded by N. Third, Locust, Court and Walnut Streets. Since 1877, this block has been the site of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM416_walnut-place_Harrisburg-PA.html
Located just across N. Fourth Street from Strawberry Square is Walnut Place, a slice of old downtown Harrisburg comprised of a series of late 19th and early 20th Century restored buildings and storefronts. Pictured here is the Rodearmel/German Hou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM415_underground-railroad_Harrisburg-PA.html
In the 1850's this area, known as Tanner's Alley, was important on the Underground Railroad. Fugitive slaves hid at Joseph Bustill's & William Jones's houses, a block apart. Frederick Douglass & William Lloyd Garrison spoke at Wesley Union AME Zio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM413_technical-high-school-old-city-hall_Harrisburg-PA.html
Erected in 1910 and designed by noted Harrisburg architect Charles Howard Lloyd, this building served as the main boy's high school of the City of Harrisburg. Known as the Technical High School, the building replaced, on the same site, the Lancast…