John Frederick Hartranft

1830 - 1889

1861 - Raised 4th and 51st Pennsylvania Volunteers

1865 - Special Provost Marshall for Lincoln Conspirators

1866 - 1879 Governor of Pennsylvania, State Constitution Revised

1879 - Father of Modern National Guard of Pennsylvania

1886 - Medal of Honor for Valor at ...

Sannoner Historic District Medical Arts Building

Built in 1826 in the Spanish Revival architectural style, this is the first structure in Florence erected with a steel skeleton supporting the floors, walls and roof. The framework is strong enough to support two more stories than were actually ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Tree

This tree is dedicated to the memory of

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1929-1968

"Freedom must ring from every mountainside...and when this happens, all...will be able to stand together...and sing a new song...Free at last, free at last, great God ...

Smart-McCormick Home

Built by Bryce M. Smart (1816-1880), who had a grist mill, tannery, freight line. His children rescued newborn calves abandoned on nearby Chisholm Trail.

McCormicks, 5th generation descendants, now own home.

Marker is on County Road 208.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Dickinson Students Part Ways

Before the war, the student body of Dickinson College was fairly evenly divided between Northern and Southern students, and thus the college was represented by soldiers on both sides of the conflict. The split is reflected in an autograph book ...

Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts

Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, which opened September 9, 1999, is the successful culmination of decades worth of community effort to develop a major performing arts and science center in downtown Harrisburg. The resources which were brought to ...

Two Future Presidents In Wartime Retreat

Hanging Rock Battlefield Trail

On June 21, 1864, two future presidents marched with Major General David Hunter’s Army of Western Virginia on its retreat from Lynchburg to West Virginia by way of Hanging Rock and the old New Castle Turnpike.

Colonel ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Drum-Major for Justice

Assassinated April 4, 1968

1929 ~ 1968

"Unless we learn to live together as brothers, surely we will die apart as fools.”

Marker is on West Main Street, on the left when traveling west. ...

Wise (Virginia) Artillery

C.S.A.

Wise (Virginia) Artillery.

Capt. J.S. Brown, Commanding.

The Wise Artillery was the only one of the four batteries attached to D.R. Jones' Division which was present on the field.

During the greater part of the engagement it occupied the high ground about 340 ...

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King City Government Center

This building, the only municipal headquarters building in the world to be named after the civil rights leader, was built for and has served as Harrisburg's City Hall since June, 1982. As part of its efforts to revitalize Center City ...