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On February 14, 1964, the Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) was founded as the first community college in Pennsylvania in the former Harrisburg Academy. In March 1965, the City of Harrisburg sold the college 157 acres (0.64 km 2 ) in Wildwood Park for a permanent campus.
1867 Pennsylvania Steel Works, south of Harrisburg, was first in the US to produce steel ingots on order. 1869 Historical Society of Dauphin County is founded by leading citizens at a meeting in Market Square Presbyterian Church.
Harrisburg's site along the Susquehanna River 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 with trails leading from the Delaware to the Ohio rivers and from the Potomac to the Upper Susquehanna intersecting there.
Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex, Bounded by 3rd and 7th, North and Walnut Streets Harrisburg Main article: Downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania The boundary of Harrisburg's Downtown is considered Forster Street to the north, I-83 to the south, the railroad tracks to the east, and the Susquehanna River to the west.
The Harrisburg Historic District is a national historic district which is located in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [ 1 ]
During the American Civil War, Pennsylvania was the second largest state in the Union, and Harrisburg was the state's capital. [1] Located at the intersection of important railroads, Harrisburg proved an important supply and logistics center for the dissemination and transportation of materiel for the Union Army.
The area of Third street near Verbeke is known as the Historic Midtown Market District and is home to many unique boutiques, galleries and shops. [ 3 ] Before 1950, Midtown was a seamless northern extension of the residential neighborhood located south of Forster Street, which today marks the northern boundary of the city's downtown residential ...
The Old Uptown Historic District is a historic district in the Midtown neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The district stretches from Reily to Maclay between Second and Third street. It consists of large Queen Anne and Italianate architecture built in the late 19th century and very early 20th century. The northern part of the historic ...