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Kunkel Building

This building was erected in 1914 as the home of the Mechanics Trust Company, a Harrisburg bank that later went "bust" during the Depression. the Bank was one of many of the era that made Harrisburg the region's financial center, ...

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Maxwell Chambers House

A good example of the

larger homes built

about 1820. Now used

by the Rowan Museum.

Located ½ block south.

Marker is at the intersection of W Innes Street and S Jackson Street, on the left when traveling west on W Innes Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Strawberry Square Phase II

This block of historic buildings traces a glimpse of Harrisburg's 19th and 20th Century retail development. Restored as Phase II of the Strawberry Square shopping complex in the late 1980's and part of the Old Downtown Harrisburg Commercial Historic District, ...

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Provident Savings Bank

This imposing building, appropriately designed by Joseph Evans Sperry to suggest an old treasure chest, is the home of Provident Savings bank, the father of branch banking among mutual savings banks of the nation. Incorporated in 1886 with the exalted ...

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A Beloved General

"...and I fell pride in the belief that the stand made on Monday, in no small degree, tended to check the temerity of the foe, daring to invade a country like ours, and designing the destruction of our city..."

Brig. ...

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Bernard von Kapff

Bernard von Kapff (1770-1829) put his stamp on early Baltimore as a merchant, public figure and leader of the German community. A native of Detmold in northern Germany, von Kapff established a tobacco importing business in 1795, and later joined ...

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McGregor / Ringling Brothers

McGregor

"Royal is my race," was the motto of Clan MacGregor of which McGregor's founder, Alexander MacGregor, was a descendant. It was 1837 when Alexander began a ferry boat operation on "MacGregor's Landing" that became a thriving town of 5500. When ...

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Fourth New York Independent Battery

Artillery Brigade - Third Corps

Army of the Potomac

Third Corps Artillery Brigade

Fourth New York Independent Battery

Six 10 pounder Parrotts

Capt. James E. Smith Commanding

July 2 Arrived from Emmitsburg at 9 a.m. Four guns posted on the heights above Devil's Den at 2 ...

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Euchee Valley Presbyterian Church And Cemetery

This is the site of one of Florida’s oldest organized Presbyterian Church which was the largest Presbyterian Church in Florida until 1885. On May 27, 1827, the Reverend Murdoch Murphy of the Alabama Synod presided with one Elder, Donald McLean, ...

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Hanging Rock Battlefield Trail

Welcome to the Hanging Rock Battlefield Trail. This 1.6 mile linear park is the Roanoke Valley’s first rails-to-trails project converting a former railroad right-of-way into a hiking and biking trail. The project’s master plan presents an orientation and overview of ...

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