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Rising from the downtown is a plot of four acres which were set aside in 1785 through the original town plan for the hoped-for establishment of Harrisburg as the state capital. The area is named Soldiers’ and Sailors Grove, and it is a tree-lined mall behind the state capitol building in Harrisburg. The park serves ...
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Chartered in 1845, here is established Harrisburg’s oldest and largest Cemetery, with period Carpenter Gothic-styled caretaker’s house, as the final resting place of many noted individuals of national, state and local importance. Soldiers from all American Wars, including...-
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The National Civil War Museum - Front Facade & Entrance Plaza. Panorama by Jeb Stuart / Jackson Lattimore
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Panorama by Jeb Stuart / Jackson Lattimore
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This is the main parlor of what was originally the stone residence of John Harris, Jr. (1727-1791), the founder of Harrisburg, which he erected around the end of the French and Indian War in 1766. In 1785, the plan of Harrisburg was laid out in the home by Harris and his son-in-law, William Maclay, one of the first U. ...
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Harrisburg’s State Street strikingly leads from the Pennsylvania State Capitol to the Susquehanna River and Kunkel Plaza, and was early established as a wide boulevard, later improved with a grass mall down its center emanating from the City Beautiful Movement. Here are erected several of the City’s finest church e...
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This 63-acre Susquehanna River island opposite Center City Harrisburg is a major tourism and recreational destination and contains archeological treasures of Native American tribes which established seasonal settlements here. The island during the Civil War was a stopping off-point for Union soldiers who crossed over i...
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vol 3 issue 2
The National Civil War Museum displays an unrivaled collection of firearms, swords, accoutrements and ammunition, as well as both Union and Confederate uniforms of infantry, cavalry, artillery and navy. Among the weapons on display are the rifles, swords and bayonets used in ...-
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The highlights of The State Museum of Pennsylvania’s Civil War Gallery are the paintings of the Battle of Gettysburg by artist Peter Frederick Rothermel. At the conclusion of the Civil War, the Pennsylvania legislature commissioned Rothermel to execute paintings that would ...-
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The Pennsylvania National Fire Museum opened in 1996 in a beautifully restored late 19th Century firehouse that served a large portion of uptown Harrisburg. The museum contains a variety of permanent and rotating displays of rare and fascinating firefighting memorabilia. Highlights include a hand pumper built by Richar...
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