Anti-Slaveholding Union Baptist Cemetery

This early Williamson County graveyard has been referred to as Smalley Cemetery due to its connection with the family of pioneer Baptist preacher Freeman Smalley. Early settlers of this area, the Smalleys were associated with the nearby Anti-Slaveholding Union Baptist ...

Rodman's Division, Ninth Army Corps

U.S.A.

Rodman's Division, Ninth Army Corps.

Brig. Gen. Isaac P. Rodman, Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

At daybreak on the 17th, Rodman's Division, supported by Ewing's Brigade of the Kanawha Division, was in position south east of Burnside Bridge. During the forenoon the Division moved ...

Blacksmith Shop

Blacksmith Shop Erected 1827

In New Berlin, New York

and Used Continuously

As a Blacksmith Shop Until 1934

Presented by

Charles H. Mitchell

of New Berlin

to the

Farmers Museum, 1944

Re-erected on this site in 1946

Marker can be reached from Lake Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Capitol Park

The deliberations during the first decade of the 19th Century through which Harrisburg prevailed in achieving State Capital status were in part spawned by the donation by John Harris, Jr., in 1785, of four acres of the oldest portion of ...

26th Pennsylvania Emergency Infantry

(Left Side):26th Pennsylvania Emergency Infantry

Organized at Harrisburg and volunteered for the emergency

Mustered into United States service June 22 1863

Mustered out July 30 1863

Co. A recruited from Pennsylvania College and Gettysburg

Total enrollment 743

Captured and missing at Gettysburg Campaign

176 officers and men

The ...

Walnut Place

Located just across N. Fourth Street from Strawberry Square is Walnut Place, a slice of old downtown Harrisburg comprised of a series of late 19th and early 20th Century restored buildings and storefronts. Pictured here is the Rodearmel/German House, situated ...

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 ...

Powerhouse and Kiln

Sawmills cut logs into rough boards. The boards were then planed and smoothed to emerge as finished lumber.

To your left are the remains of the planing-mill powerhouse. The square stone at the bottom of the ruin once supported a 50-horsepower ...

South Liberty Presbyterian Church

In 1820, several members of Liberty Church, Wilkes County, petitioned to form a new church, South Liberty, because of “distance, bad roads, high water in winter.” A log church was built in 1828 about 4 miles east of Sharon on ...

Original Capitol Complex

When ten hilltop acres of William Maclay's farm were sold in 1810 to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the ultimate erection of the Old Capitol Building, the sale was predicated upon Maclay's earlier prescribed directive establishing exactly where the building ...