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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4CD_wildwood-park_Harrisburg-PA.html
Inspired by 'City Beautiful' advocates Horace McFarland and Mira Lloyd Dock, Wildwood Park opened its first trails in 1907. The largest of several Harrisburg parks designed in 1901 by leading horticulturist Warren Manning, it was part of a nationw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4C8_wildwood-lake-sanctuary_Harrisburg-PA.html
Here at the base of Blue Mountain and within the City of Harrisburg's northern tier lies the 212-acre Wildwood Lake Sanctuary, the last vestige and magnificent preserve of the Susquehanna flood-plain wetlands which at one time were common prior to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3VN_camp-curtin-1861-1865_Harrisburg-PA.html
In memory of more than 300,000 soldiers of the Civil War. The flower of the nation's youth and the maturity of her manhood, who passed into and out of this camp to the field of battle. A united country enjoys the fruits of their victory for libert…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3VK_camp-curtin_Harrisburg-PA.html
Here on 80 acres stood a great training camp of the Civil War. It was named after Andrew Gregg Curtin, Pennsylvania Governor, 1861-1867. Between April 1861 and April 1865, more military units were organized here than at any other Northern camp.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3VG_camp-curtin_Harrisburg-PA.html
Harrisburg's Civil War importance as a transportation center and state capital became strikingly clear upon the fall of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, in April of 1861 when President Abraham Lincoln and Pennsylvania Governor And…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3VC_italian-lake_Harrisburg-PA.html
As early as 1903, reference was made to a strip of ground at the "head of Second Street" above Division Street which would become part of the comprehensive parks improvement plan advanced by landscape architect Warren Manning of Boston at the star…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3V9_zembo-shrine-temple_Harrisburg-PA.html
The growth in the activities and membership of the Harrisburg Masonic Shriners had by the end of the 1920's, resulted in the demand for a grand new facility. The emergence of Italian Lake Park, William Penn High School and the establishment of Pol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3V7_old-harrisburg-academy-dixon-university-center_Harrisburg-PA.html
Founded in 1784 by John Harris Jr., through profits generated by his Ferry across the Susquehanna, the Harrisburg Academy erected this riverside campus in 1908. The school was officially incorporated through an Act of the State Legislature in 1809…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3V2_harrisburg-state-hospital_Harrisburg-PA.html
The first State mental hospital in Pennsylvania. Opened in 1851, a result of efforts by the noted humanitarian, Dorothea Lynde Dix, to improve this State's treatment of the mentally ill. The hospital is on the wooded hills east of this marker, ove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3OJ_governors-residence_Harrisburg-PA.html
This is the present home of the Governor of Pennsylvania. It was completed in 1968 and is the third official executive mansion located in Harrisburg.