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The Patriot-News is the largest newspaper serving Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area in central Pennsylvania. In 2005, the newspaper was ranked in the top 100 in daily and Sunday circulation in the United States. It has been owned by Advance Publications since 1947.
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 Potomac to the Upper Susquehanna intersected ...
1837 Harrisburg's first railroad (RR) station built. 1839 Cumberland County RR Bridge goes into operation; would burn down in 1841. 1847 President James K. Polk appointed Jonas K. Rudy as the first letter carrier. [5] 1850 Harrisburg's first anthracite furnace built (Porter Furnace). U.S. Census lists 1,376 dwellings and 7,834 people.
John M. Baer is a political columnist with The (Harrisburg, Pa.) Patriot-News/PennLive, formerly with The Philadelphia Daily News/Philadelphia Inquirer. Career
Harrisburg State Hospital, formerly known from 1851 to 1937 as Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was Pennsylvania's first public facility to house the mentally ill and disabled. Its campus is located on Cameron St. and Arsenal Blvd, and operated as a mental hospital until 2006.
In 2012, the newspaper launched a partnership with abc27 News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. [2] The media outlets coordinate and share news coverage. Also that year, The Sentinel expanded its print edition to include weekly local sections about food, health, outdoors, faith, entertainment, and history; a daily local opinion page; and a daily "Capital Region" page with news from Harrisburg and ...
The Harrisburg Mall was a regional mall located just outside Harrisburg in Swatara Township, Pennsylvania. It was the largest mall in the Harrisburg metropolitan area. The anchor store is Bass Pro Shops. There are 2 vacant anchor stores that were once Macy's and Boscov's.
In 1979, ownership of the market was transferred to the City of Harrisburg, which operated the market until 1996 under a city-appointed agency. [2] In 1996, the city completed a $2.5 million award-winning restoration of the Market complex, which was designed to reposition it as a successful and growth-oriented retail enterprise. In 1999, the ...