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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJT_threatened-invasion-of-harrisburg-historical_Harrisburg-PA.html
General Robert E. Lee decided to take the war into the North in June 1863, allowing Southern farmers an uninterrupted growing season, and perhaps convincing European powers to aid the Confederacy. As the rebels invaded Pennsylvania, Harrisburg mad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJ0_thomas-morris-chester-historical_Harrisburg-PA.html
Thomas Morris Chester was born at the corner of Third and Market Streets in Harrisburg in 1834. One of Harrisburg's most famous nineteenth century African-Americans, he was particularly known for his leadership in education, journalism, military r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XIW_the-ladies-of-harrisburg-during-the-civil-war-historical_Harrisburg-PA.html
From virtually the first shots of the Civil War, the women of Harrisburg worked in a variety of behind-the-scenes roles that proved essential to the Union victory. When Camp Curtin opened on April 18, 1861, the ladies of Harrisburg were already at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XHW_old-philadelphia-reading-railroad-station-historical_Harrisburg-PA.html
On the site of the present Market Street Post Office Building stood until the early 1960's the old Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Station, Harrisburg's second passenger terminal that exemplified the City's prominence and traditional role as trans…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SNR_milton-s-hershey_Hershey-PA.html
Milton S. Hershey founded the world famous Hershey's Chocolate Company in 1903 and built a town around it for his employees, complete with homes, schools, and cultural and recreational opportunities.
In 1907, Milton S.Hershey founded HERSHEYPARK …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M49_leaders-stewards-and-advocates_Harrisburg-PA.html
By 1873, Bethel AME Church served three elements of the city's Black population; those free before the Civil War, those emancipated and placed in Bethel's care by the Freedman's Bureau; and immigrants fleeing the South's Jim Crow laws.
To shelter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M48_fort-hunter-history_Harrisburg-PA.html
Prior to European settlement this land was inhabited by the Susquehannock and Delaware Indian tribes. *Around 1750 Samuel Hunter married the widow Catherine Chambers and settled here to run her gristmill. *The Fort at Hunter's Mill or Fort Hunter …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M47_slavery-at-fort-hunter_Harrisburg-PA.html
From 1786 to the early 1830s, over twenty enslaved people lived and worked at Fort Hunter. Their parents and ancestors had been stolen from Africa. The McAllister family, who created all of Fort Hunter's earliest surviving buildings, was one of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M3Z_pennsylvania-slavery_Harrisburg-PA.html
Slavery was entwined with Pennsylvania's earliest colonial history. Governor William Penn, founder of the colony in 1681, owned eleven enslaved people. A century later, Pennsylvania passed the 1780 Gradual Emancipation law. This allowed for the ev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M3Y_united-states-slavery_Harrisburg-PA.html
At the birth of the United States in the 1770s, slavery was firmly embedded in its fabric. Blacks stolen from Africa were shipped to America as part of a lucrative trade system. Most enslaved people lived in the South, but about 10% lived in the N…