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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3YD_market-square_Harrisburg-PA.html
For over a century farm produce was sold here in market sheds and from wagons at the curbs. The first sheds were built soon after the city was laid out in 1785; the last were removed in 1889. Many inns faced the Square.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3XZ_abraham-lincoln_Harrisburg-PA.html
On February 22, 1861, while journeying to Washington for his Inauguration, Lincoln stopped at the Jones House, on this site. From the portico of the hotel, he addressed a large crowd gathered in Market Square.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3XY_market-square-presbyterian-church_Harrisburg-PA.html
With its roots dating to 1794 and having evolved from the earlier Paxton Presbyterian Church east of the city in what would become Paxtang, the Presbyterian Church of Harrisburg originally met in rooms of the old jail, on Walnut Street, and in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3XW_the-peanut-house_Harrisburg-PA.html
On this site for nearly 180 years stood a two and a-half story brick building with ties to local, state and national history. Initially the home of early settler John Frey, the house was sold in 1817 to a noted clockmaker, Frederick Heisley, whose…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3XS_old-salem-church_Harrisburg-PA.html
Standing on land granted for religious purposes in 1785 by John Harris, this church was erected, 1822. It replaced one built of logs in 1787, the first church structure in present-day Harrisburg.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3XL_executive-mansion_Harrisburg-PA.html
The first official Governor's residence stood at this site. Purchased in 1858, it housed only two governors. Packer and Curtin. It was sold in 1864 when the second official residence which became "Keystone Hall," was acquired.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3XI_the-crowne-plaza_Harrisburg-PA.html
The current era of hostelries in Harrisburg can be defined as having begun in 1965 with the construction of the Holiday Inn Town, now The Crowne Plaza. Prior to that time, the Harrisburger and Penn-Harris Hotels, at Third and Locust and Third and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3XH_the-johnston-building-menaker-building_Harrisburg-PA.html
1906 was a banner year in Harrisburg for the construction of major buildings. The new State Capitol Building was completed that year and two "book-end" office structures were developed on Market Square. One was the eight-story Union Trust Building…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3XC_hilton-harrisburg-and-towers_Harrisburg-PA.html
When it opened amidst regalia and fanfare in the fall of 1990, the Hilton Harrisburg and Towers reclaimed Harrisburg's traditional role as Central Pennsylvania's primary destination for the lodging and conference industry. Although plans for a maj…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3X7_the-jones-house_Harrisburg-PA.html
On this site, the southeast corner of Second and Market Streets on Market Square, stood the Jones House, a mid-Nineteenth Century Hotel, which later evolved into the larger Commonwealth Hotel and later, the Dauphin Building. It was here that Abrah…