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The Market Street Bridge is a stone arch bridge that spans the Susquehanna River between Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Wormleysburg, Pennsylvania. The current structure is the third bridge built at its current location and is the second oldest remaining bridge in Harrisburg. [2] The bridge carries BicyclePA Route J across the river.
Market Street/Legislative Route 34 over the Susquehanna River 40°15′27″N 76°53′00″W / 40.2575°N 76.883333°W / 40.2575; -76.883333 ( Market Street Harrisburg
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), established in 1995, is the agency in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania responsible for maintaining and preserving the state's 124 state parks and 20 state forests; providing information on the state's natural resources; and working with communities to benefit local recreation and natural areas. [1]
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. Bull Run [5] (antiquated) Capitol District; Eighth Ward [5] (antiquated) Judytown (antiquated) Market Square; Maclaysburg (antiquated) Restaurant Row; Shipoke; South of ...
Harrisburg's Market Square is located in Downtown Harrisburg at the intersection of 2nd and Market Streets. The square was created in 1785. Since then, it has traditionally been the navigational center of the city, and experienced a post-1980s revival, with the creation of several new commercial, residential and retail spaces.
Temple University has its Harrisburg Campus in Strawberry Square. Messiah College's Harrisburg Institute. Capital Area School for the Arts is located within Strawberry Square. The Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts on Market street hosts an IMAX theater, children's science museum with traveling exhibits, and gift shop
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.
Among the structures included in the district are the Derry Street United Methodist Church at 1508 Derry Street, which was built in 1908 and known, originally, as the Derry Street United Brethren and Evangelical Church, [3] and the Beidleman House at 1225 Market Street, which was built in 1906 for Edward E. Beidleman, a prominent, twentieth ...