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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B60_green-street-residences_Harrisburg-PA.html
1100, 1102, 1104, 1106 and 1108 Green
Street were designed by the
renowned Harrisburg architect
Charles Howard Lloyd (1873-1937). The
five residences were erected by the
Union Real Estate Investment
Company in 1906 on a property
purchased f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM452_pennsylvania-canal_Harrisburg-PA.html
The rise of Harrisburg's importance and distinction as one of the major transportation centers in the eastern United States was launched on March 14, 1827, by the laying of the cornerstone at the eastern end of Walnut Street downtown for the const…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM442_reily-hose-company-no-10_Harrisburg-PA.html
The explosion in the growth of Uptown Harrisburg in the last two decades of the 19th Century required the construction of a new fire station, the first to be located north of Reily Street. On July 11, 1885, the Reily Hose Company was organized and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM441_simon-cameron-school_Harrisburg-PA.html
Although Harrisburg's northern boundary when incorporated as a city in 1860 reached as far as Maclay Street, it would not be until the early 1890's that development widely occurred above Reily Street. Local homebuilder Benjamin Engle launched the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM440_broad-street-market_Harrisburg-PA.html
The Broad Street Market consists of the oldest continuously operated market houses in the United States. By the advent of the Civil War, Harrisburg began to develop north of North Street onto the newly subdivided lands of William Verbeke, John For…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM43Z_historic-midtown-market-district_Harrisburg-PA.html
Just prior to the Civil War, Harrisburg's northern development reached only as far as North Street, although its northern boundary extended to Herr Street under an annexation to the original Borough in 1838. In 1860, Harrisburg was incorporated as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM42J_pennsylvania-state-archives-and-the-state-museum-of-pennsylvania_Harrisburg-PA.html
Established in 1903, the Pennsylvania State Archives was originally a division of the Pennsylvania State Library which was housed in the Old Executive Office Building (now the Matthew J. Ryan Legislative Office Building) located just south of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM42H_pennsylvania-state-archives_Harrisburg-PA.html
Created in 1903 as the Division of Public Records in the State Library, the State Archives safeguards and provides public access to records of state and local government and historical manuscripts. Dating from 1681, original records and papers hou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM429_the-old-waterworks_Harrisburg-PA.html
The development and evolution of Harrisburg's early public works infrastructure is captured through the unique Riverfront Park setting of the Old Waterworks, the original stone portion of which was constructed in 1841. At that time water was pumpe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3PR_lest-we-forget_Harrisburg-PA.html
This statue erected by grateful parents of soldier sons in honor of those living and dead who served in the World War.This boulder from the foot of Round Top, Battlefield of Gettysburg