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Harrisburg (/ ˈhærɪsˌbɜːrɡ /, Pennsylvania German: Harrisbarrig) is the capital city of the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the seat of Dauphin County. With a population of 50,099 as of 2020, Harrisburg is the ninth-most populous city in Pennsylvania.
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The history of Harrisburg, the state capital of the...
- Downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Downtown Harrisburg is the central core neighborhood,...
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Harrisburg ou Harrisburgo [2] é a capital do estado norte-americano da Pensilvânia e sede do condado de Dauphin. Foi incorporada em 1791. É banhada pelo rio Susquehanna.
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The site along the Susquehanna River in which Harrisburg is located is thought to have been inhabited by Native Americans as early as 3000 BC. Known to the Native Americans as "Peixtin," or "Paxtang," the area was an important resting place and crossroads for Native American traders, as the trails leading from the Delaware to the Ohio and from the ...
During the first part of the 19th century, Harrisburg was an important stopping place along the Underground Railroad, as escaped slaves would be transported across the Susquehanna River and were often fed and given supplies before they headed north towards Canada. The assembling of the Harrisburg Convention in 1827 led to the passage of the high pr...
In the late 19th century, Harrisburg was an undeveloped industrial urban center that suffered from lack of clean water, poor drainage, frequent flooding, and absence of recreational green space. When the Capitol burned down suddenly on February 2, 1897, congressional groups associated with western (Pittsburg) and eastern (Philadelphia) factions ser...
The Pennsylvania Farm Show, a major annual agriculture exposition, was first held in 1917 and has been held every January since. The present location of the Show is the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center, on the corner of Maclay and Cameron streets. On February 14, 1964, the Harrisburg Area Community College (or HACC) was founded as the f...
In October 2011, Harrisburg filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy when four members of the seven-member City Council voted to file a bankruptcy petition in order to prevent the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from taking over the city's finances. Bankruptcy Judge Mary France dismissed the petition on the grounds that the City Council majority had filed it ov...
Barton, Michael. An Illustrated History of Greater Harrisburg: Life by the Moving Road. Sun Valley, Calif: Amer Historical Press, 1998.Beers, Paul. City Contented, City Discontented: A History of Modern Harrisburg. Edited by Michael Barton. Harrisburg: Midtown Scholar Press, 2012.Donehoo, George P. Harrisburg: The City Beautiful, Romantic and Historic. Stackpole, 1927.Pettegrew, David, and James B. LaGrand. 'Special Issue: Harrisburg, Digital Public History, and the 'City Beautiful'." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 87, no. 1 (2020). http...7 de set. de 2024 · Harrisburg, capital (1812) of Pennsylvania, U.S., and seat (1785) of Dauphin county, on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, 105 miles (169 km) west of Philadelphia. It is the hub of an urbanized area that includes Steelton, Paxtang, Penbrook, Colonial Park, Linglestown, Hershey, and Middletown.
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Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state in the United States, with over 13 million residents as of the 2020 United States census. [4] The state is the 33rd-largest by area and has the ninth-highest population density among all states.
Learn about the history, geography and population of Harrisburg, the capital city of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Dauphin County. Find out how it got its name, when it was founded and what landmarks it has.
Downtown Harrisburg is the central core neighborhood, business and government center which surrounds the focal point of Market Square, and serves as the regional center for the greater metropolitan area of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.
