All Stories: 31 All Featured Tags Subjects Sort by: Title Date Added Filed Under Notable Visitors to Harrisburg Lafayette Comes to HarrisburgHow Pennsylvania's Capital Welcomed the Nation's Guest in 1825 By J.T. Crocenzi View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Housing Restrictions on Locust StreetBuilding Homes to Build Fences By Molly Elspas View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Abolitionism Violence at the Jailhouse A Fugitive Slave Case in Harrisburg By J.T. Crocenzi View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Notable Visitors to Harrisburg Charles Dickens in HarrisburgA One-Day Visit That Left a Lasting Impression By Hannah Boes View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Notable Visitors to Harrisburg George Washington in HarrisburgA Visit on the Road to the Whiskey Rebellion By Kylie Smith & J.T. Crocenzi View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Immigrants The Wagner Family BakeryBakeries, Confectioneries, and Immigrant Life in Harrisburg By Emmy Fogle View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Health Sister Mary Clare Grace and the St. Clare InfirmaryA Story of Care and Compassion in Harrisburg's Eighth Ward By Hannah Boes View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Environment Harrisburg's ZooA History of the Wildwood Zoological Park By Kylie Smith View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Health Harrisburg's Once "Lunatic Hospital" The Beginnings of the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital By Sophia Snyder View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Government The Commonwealth Statue and the 50 State Quarters Program By Emmy Varner View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Environment Mira Dock’s Impact on Riverfront RenewalDock's Environmental Legacy By Phoebe Lemin View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Government Genevieve Blatt and the Commonwealth CourtChanging Pennsylvania politics for the better By Maddie Graham View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Housing The Demolition of the Old Eighth WardThe Lost Neighborhood in the Shadow of the Pennsylvania Capitol By David Pettegrew View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… The Rowland Beauty SchoolMentoring Young African American Women By Tessa Spinosa & Elyse Acosta View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… K. Leroy Irvis vs. the Moose LodgeA Legal Battle against Segregation in Harrisburg By Nik Lego View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… The Phyllis Wheatley YWCA Black Women Activists of Twentieth-Century Harrisburg By Elizabeth Movinsky & Sarah Meeks View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… KKK Labor Day RallyThe Rise and Fall of the Klan in Harrisburg By Nik Lego View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Black Politics and City BeautifulDr. William H.C. Jones and the Eighth Ward By Kyle Shively & Emmy Varner View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Hercules, Harris, and the Mulberry TreeHistory and Memory in the Founding of Harrisburg By Sophia Snyder View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Jacob T. ComptonThe Musician, Sergeant, and President's Coachman By Kylie Smith View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… The Chester Family Oyster HouseServing up a Legacy of Activism By Meredith Gardner View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… The US Colored Troops Grand ReviewHarrisburg Welcomes Home the Black Veterans of the Civil War By Elizabeth Movinsky View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Maude Coleman and the Case Against Harrisburg's Second Capitol Extension The Defense of the Seventh Ward By Kelan Amme View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Fort Couch, Fort Washington, and the Defense of HarrisburgHow Black Civilians, Laborers and Soldiers Helped Defend Pennsylvania's Capital By Dominic Gomez View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Harrisburg's Role in the Underground RailroadThe Heart of the Central Route By Elizabeth Movinsky View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Jack's Hotel and the Jackson HouseBlack Business in Harrisburg’s Green Book By Rachel Petroziello View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… A Gathering at the CrossroadsThe Story of the Commonwealth Monument By Alexandra Shehigian View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Douglass at the Dauphin County CourthouseAbolition and Violence in the State Capital By Dominic Gomez View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… The Lincoln Street SchoolEducational Inequity and Reform during the Nineteenth Century By Alexandra Shehigian View Story — Show on Map Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Harrisburg's African Methodist Episcopal ChurchesThe Road to Emancipation By Rachel Petroziello View Story — Show on Map Next Loading Stories Map
Filed Under Notable Visitors to Harrisburg Lafayette Comes to HarrisburgHow Pennsylvania's Capital Welcomed the Nation's Guest in 1825 By J.T. Crocenzi View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Housing Restrictions on Locust StreetBuilding Homes to Build Fences By Molly Elspas View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Abolitionism Violence at the Jailhouse A Fugitive Slave Case in Harrisburg By J.T. Crocenzi View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Notable Visitors to Harrisburg Charles Dickens in HarrisburgA One-Day Visit That Left a Lasting Impression By Hannah Boes View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Notable Visitors to Harrisburg George Washington in HarrisburgA Visit on the Road to the Whiskey Rebellion By Kylie Smith & J.T. Crocenzi View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Immigrants The Wagner Family BakeryBakeries, Confectioneries, and Immigrant Life in Harrisburg By Emmy Fogle View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Health Sister Mary Clare Grace and the St. Clare InfirmaryA Story of Care and Compassion in Harrisburg's Eighth Ward By Hannah Boes View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Environment Harrisburg's ZooA History of the Wildwood Zoological Park By Kylie Smith View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Health Harrisburg's Once "Lunatic Hospital" The Beginnings of the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital By Sophia Snyder View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Government The Commonwealth Statue and the 50 State Quarters Program By Emmy Varner View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Environment Mira Dock’s Impact on Riverfront RenewalDock's Environmental Legacy By Phoebe Lemin View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Government Genevieve Blatt and the Commonwealth CourtChanging Pennsylvania politics for the better By Maddie Graham View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Housing The Demolition of the Old Eighth WardThe Lost Neighborhood in the Shadow of the Pennsylvania Capitol By David Pettegrew View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… The Rowland Beauty SchoolMentoring Young African American Women By Tessa Spinosa & Elyse Acosta View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… K. Leroy Irvis vs. the Moose LodgeA Legal Battle against Segregation in Harrisburg By Nik Lego View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… The Phyllis Wheatley YWCA Black Women Activists of Twentieth-Century Harrisburg By Elizabeth Movinsky & Sarah Meeks View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… KKK Labor Day RallyThe Rise and Fall of the Klan in Harrisburg By Nik Lego View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Black Politics and City BeautifulDr. William H.C. Jones and the Eighth Ward By Kyle Shively & Emmy Varner View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Hercules, Harris, and the Mulberry TreeHistory and Memory in the Founding of Harrisburg By Sophia Snyder View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Jacob T. ComptonThe Musician, Sergeant, and President's Coachman By Kylie Smith View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… The Chester Family Oyster HouseServing up a Legacy of Activism By Meredith Gardner View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… The US Colored Troops Grand ReviewHarrisburg Welcomes Home the Black Veterans of the Civil War By Elizabeth Movinsky View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Maude Coleman and the Case Against Harrisburg's Second Capitol Extension The Defense of the Seventh Ward By Kelan Amme View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Fort Couch, Fort Washington, and the Defense of HarrisburgHow Black Civilians, Laborers and Soldiers Helped Defend Pennsylvania's Capital By Dominic Gomez View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Harrisburg's Role in the Underground RailroadThe Heart of the Central Route By Elizabeth Movinsky View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Jack's Hotel and the Jackson HouseBlack Business in Harrisburg’s Green Book By Rachel Petroziello View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… A Gathering at the CrossroadsThe Story of the Commonwealth Monument By Alexandra Shehigian View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Douglass at the Dauphin County CourthouseAbolition and Violence in the State Capital By Dominic Gomez View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… The Lincoln Street SchoolEducational Inequity and Reform during the Nineteenth Century By Alexandra Shehigian View Story — Show on Map
Filed Under Chester Way: A Tour of Black Civil… Harrisburg's African Methodist Episcopal ChurchesThe Road to Emancipation By Rachel Petroziello View Story — Show on Map