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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M33_trailblazers_Harrisburg-PA.html
The second Bethel AME Church opened on Short Street on November 24, 1839. Bethel's first pastors-Reverend Levin Lee (ca. 1833-1843), Reverend T.M.D. Ward (1843-1845), and Reverend Abraham Cole (1846-ca.1854) —- each helped increase interest …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M0K_rockville-bridge_Harrisburg-PA.html
The longest stone masonry arch railroad bridge in the world, visible to the south, was built between 1900 and 1902. Named for the surrounding small settlement, it has forty-eight arches and a length of 3,820 feet. It is the third bridge constructe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11KC_maurice-k-goddard_Harrisburg-PA.html
Served five governors from 1955 to 1979 in an extraordinary career as Secretary of the former Departments of Environmental Resources and Forests and Waters. Goddard significantly expanded the state park system, established state forest natural and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTTQ_cumberland-valley-railroad-bridge_Harrisburg-PA.html
The coming of the railroad to Harrisburg in 1836 led to the construction of the first bridges to span the Susquehanna, since the building of the Camelback Bridge in 1817, which planted the seed for what would become the city's trademark of distinc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKY3_union-canal_Harrisburg-PA.html
At Union Deposit, five miles south, can be seen remains of this canal. It connected the Susquehanna at Middletown with the Schuylkill at Reading. Suggested by William Penn, the canal was surveyed in 1762. Completed in 1828; abandoned in 1885.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKY2_barnetts-fort_Harrisburg-PA.html
North at the head of Beaver Creek, Joseph Barnett's loghouse was a frontier refuge in 1756-63 against Indians raiding the frontier. His son William was stolen by Indians in 1756 and not recovered until 1763 by Col. Henry Bouquet.