Timeline of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania history

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1889 Map of Harrisburg City Map of Harrisburg City, Dauphin Co. Pa. LOC 2011593711.jpg
1889 Map of Harrisburg City

This is a timeline of the major events in the history of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and vicinity.

Contents

Early America

19th century

20th century

Share of the Harrisburg Railways Company, issued 15. July 1916 Harrisburg Railways Company 1916.jpg
Share of the Harrisburg Railways Company, issued 15. July 1916

21st century

See also

References

  1. Egle, William (1883). Illustrated history of the commonwealth of pennsylvania, civil, political : from its ... (3rd ed.). Philadelphia: E. M. Gardner. p. 639. ISBN   1-2861-7074-5.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  2. "Parson John Elder House Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  3. 1 2 "The First Newspaper Published in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 10 (3): 251–255. 1886. ISSN   0031-4587. JSTOR   20083145.
  4. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
  5. Barton, Michael (1998). Life by the moving road : an illustrated history of greater Harrisburg. American Historical Press. OCLC   1245295169.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Capital Area Transit (2012). "History of Transit in the Harrisburg Area". Capital Area Transit. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
  7. Barton, Michael (2020). "Before the City Was Beautiful" . Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 87 (1): 92–96. doi:10.5325/pennhistory.87.1.0092. ISSN   0031-4528. JSTOR   10.5325/pennhistory.87.1.0092. S2CID   214225082.
  8. "Campus Fact Sheet" (PDF). Penn State Harrisburg.
  9. "Lessons linger from Harrisburg's 1969 summer of racial turmoil". pennlive. June 21, 2019. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  10. "About the Project". Vision Zero Harrisburg. June 27, 2018. Retrieved July 28, 2021.
  11. "21 civilian positions included in Harrisburg budget to create new police Community Services Division". pennlive. November 25, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  12. "Harrisburg makes final payment on bond spanning 25 years, hopes to be debt free by year's end". TheBurg. September 9, 2022. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  13. "Fire engulfs building at Harrisburg's Broad Street Market". PennLIVE. July 10, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.

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