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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 ...
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.
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.
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's capital, Elementary Coffee Co. owner Andrea Grove started her business in 2014, when she was just 26 years old, at the city’s famous Broad Street Market.
Even before large-scale European settlement, the Native American tribes in Pennsylvania engaged in trade with Europeans, and the fur trade was a major motivation for the European colonization of North America. [21] The fur trade also sparked wars among Native American tribes, including the Beaver Wars, which saw the Iroquois Confederacy rise in ...
Museum of the American Revolution (Philadelphia, PA), museum presenting the history of the American Revolution through interpretive programs, permanent exhibits, and temporary exhibits. Summerseat (Morrisville, Bucks County, PA), also known as the George Clymer House and Thomas Barclay House, is a historic house museum. Built about 1770, it is ...
West Harrisburg Market Company is formed by William K. Verbeke, which would become the Broad Street Market. 1861-65 City played active role in the Civil War; see Harrisburg in the American Civil War; 1861 First horsecar operation: The Street Railway Company. Camp Curtin established nearby: Large Union Army training ground.
Trainor, Sean. "Pennsylvania and the American Civil War: An Annotated Guide to Online Resources." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 135.4 (2011): 513–523. online; Tremel, Andrew T. "The Union League, Black Leaders, and the Recruitment of Philadelphia's African American Civil War Regiments." Pennsylvania History 80.1 (2013): 13 ...