Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Harrisburg, Pennsylvania City of Harrisburg From top to bottom, left to right: Harrisburg skyline; Market Square in Downtown Harrisburg; Pennsylvania State Capitol; FNB Field; Walnut Street Bridge; Susquehanna River From top to bottom, left to right: Harrisburg skyline; Market Square in Downtown Harrisburg; Pennsylvania State Capitol; FNB Field; Walnut Street Bridge; Susquehanna River Official seal of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Harrisburg is positioned in Pennsylvania Harrisburg - Harrisburg Harrisburg (Pennsylvania German: Harrisbarig) is the capital town/city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and the governmental center of county of Dauphin County.
As of the 2010 United States Enumeration the CSA had a populace total of 1,219,422, and ranked 3rd most crowded in the state of Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and 43rd most crowded in the United States.
Harrisburg played a notable part in American history amid the Westward Migration, the American Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
During part of the 19th century, the building of the Pennsylvania Canal and later the Pennsylvania Railroad allowed Harrisburg to turn into one of the most industrialized metros/cities in the Northeastern United States.
Navy ship USS Harrisburg, which served from 1918 to 1919 at the end of World War I, was titled in honor of the city.
In the mid-to-late 20th century, the city's economic fortunes fluctuated with its primary industries consisting of government, heavy manufacturing including the manufacturing of steel, agriculture (the greater Harrisburg region is at the heart of the fertile Pennsylvania Dutch Country), and food services (nearby Hershey is home of the chocolate manufacturer, positioned just 10 miles (16 km) east of Harrisburg).
The Pennsylvania Farm Show, the biggest no-charge indoor agriculture exposition in the United States, was first held in Harrisburg in 1917 and has been held there every early-to-mid January since then. Harrisburg also hosts an annual outside sports show, the biggest of its kind in North America, an auto show, which features a large static display of new as well as classic cars and is famous nationwide, and Motorama, a two-day event consisting of a car show, motocross racing, remote control car racing, and more.
To raise a family. Even with the city's recent financial troubles, in 2010 The Daily Beast website ranked 20 urbane areas athwart the nation as being recession-proof, and the Harrisburg region landed at No.
8.1 City of Harrisburg Main article: History of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Harrisburg's site along the Susquehanna River is thought to have been inhabited by Native Americans as early as 3000 BC.
In 1791, Harrisburg became incorporated, and in October 1812 it was titled the Pennsylvania state capital, which it has remained ever since.
The assembling here of the highly sectional Harrisburg Convention in 1827 (signaling what may have been the birth of lobbying on a nationwide scale) led to the passage of the high protective-tariff bill of 1828. In 1839, Harrison and Tyler were impel for President of the United States at the first nationwide convention of the Whig Party of the United States, which was held in Harrisburg.
Before Harrisburg attained its first industries, it was a scenic, pastoral town, typical of most of the day: compact and surrounded by farmland.
It was Harrisburg's strategic locale which gave it an favor over many other towns.
Harrisburg assumed importance as a provisioning stop at this point where westward bound pioneers transitioned from river travel to overland travel.
It was partly because of its strategic locale that the state council chose the small town of Harrisburg to turn into the state capital in 1812.
During the American Civil War, Harrisburg was a momentous training center for the Union Army, with tens of thousands of troops passing through Camp Curtin.
During the first part of the 19th century, Harrisburg was a notable stopping place along the Underground Railroad, as escaped slaves being transported athwart the Susquehanna River were often fed and supplied before heading north towards Canada. Postcard depicting Market Street in Downtown Harrisburg as it appeared in 1910.
Harrisburg's importance in the latter half of the 19th century was in the steel industry.
Its first large scale iron foundries were put into operation shortly after 1850. As industries nationwide entered a phase of great expansion and technological improvement, so did industries and in particular the steel trade in Harrisburg.
With Harrisburg poised for expansion in steel production, the Borough of Steelton became the ideal locale for this type of industry.
The rail yard was another region of Harrisburg that saw rapid and thorough change amid the years of industrialization.
Pennsylvania Railroad was the biggest rail line in Harrisburg.
Like most other metros/cities which faced a loss of their industrialized base, Harrisburg shifted to a service-oriented base, with industries such as community care and meeting halls playing a big part .
Harrisburg's greatest lured was a shrinking town/city population after 1950.
This loss in populace followed a nationwide trend and was a delayed result of the diminish of Harrisburg's steel industry.
It was advanced in the late 19th century and offered well-to-do Harrisburgers the opportunity to live in the suburbs only a several hundred yards from their jobs in the City.
Easy access was accomplished via the State Street Bridge dominant east from the Capitol complex and the Market Street Bridge dominant from the City's prominent company district.
In the early 20th century, the town/city of Harrisburg was in need of change.
Seeing these necessary changes, a several Harrisburg inhabitants became involved in the City Beautiful movement.
Specifically, their accomplishments greatly enlarged the Harrisburg park system, creating Riverfront Park, Reservoir Park, the Italian Lake and Wildwood Park.
The present locale of the Show is the Pennsylvania State Farm Show Arena, positioned at the corner of Maclay and Cameron streets.
On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, along the Susquehanna River positioned in Londonderry Township which is south of Harrisburg, suffered a partial meltdown.
Several exhibitions and hotels such as Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, the National Civil War Museum and the Hilton Harrisburg and Towers were assembled amid his term, along with many office buildings and residentiary structures.
Several semi-professional sports franchises, including the Harrisburg Senators of the Eastern League, the Harrisburg Heat indoor soccer club and the Harrisburg City Islanders of the USL Second Division began operations in the town/city during his tenure as mayor.
During the nearly 30-year tenure of former Mayor Stephen Reed from 1981 to 2009, town/city officials ignored legal restraints on the use of bond proceeds, as Reed spent the cash pursuing interests including collecting Civil War and Wild West memorabilia some which was found in Reed's home after his arrest on corruption charges. Infrastructure was left unrepaired, and the heart of the city's financial woes was a trash to electricity plant, the Harrisburg incinerator that was supposed to generate income but instead because of increased borrowing, incurred a debt of $320 million. In October 2011, Harrisburg filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy when four members of the seven-member City Council voted to file a bankruptcy petition in order to prevent the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from taking over the city's finances. Bankruptcy Judge Mary France dismissed the petition on the grounds that the City Council majority had filed it over the objection of Mayor Linda Thompson, reasoning that the filing not only required the mayor's approval but had circumvented state laws concerning financially distressed cities. Instead, a state appointed receiver took charge of the city's finances. Governor Tom Corbett appointed bond attorney David Unkovic as the city's receiver, but Unkovic resigned after only four months. Unkovic blamed disdain for legal restraints on contracts and debt for creating Harrisburg's intractable financial problem, and said the corrupt influence of creditors and political cronies inhibited fixing it. Lynch, was appointed. The City Council opposed the new receiver's plans for tax increases and promoted a stay of the creditor lawsuits with a bankruptcy filing, while Mayor Thompson continued to oppose bankruptcy. State legislators crafted a moratorium to prevent Harrisburg from declaring bankruptcy, and after the moratorium expired, the law stripped the town/city government of the authority to file for bankruptcy and conferred it on the state receiver. After two years of negotiations in August 2013 Receiver Lynch revealed his elected voluntary plan for resolving Harrisburg's fiscal problems. The complex plan calls for creditors to write down or postpone some debt. To pay the remainder, Harrisburg will sell the troubled incinerator, lease for forty years its parking garages, and go further into debt by issuing new bonds. Receiver Lynch has also called for setting up nonprofit investment corporations to oversee transit framework improvement (repairing the city's crumbling roads, water and sewage lines), pensions, and economic development. These are intended to allow nonprofit fundraising, and to reduce the likelihood of mismanagement by the dysfunctional town/city government. Harrisburg's City Council and the state Commonwealth Court allowed the plan, and it is in the process of implementation.
Downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania panorama, as seen from the John Harris Bridge (2000).
Astronaut Photography of Harrisburg Pennsylvania taken from the International Space Station (ISS) Harrisburg is positioned at 40 16 11 N 76 52 32 W (40.269789, -76.875613) in South Central Pennsylvania. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.4 square miles (30 km2), of which, 8.1 square miles (21 km2) of it is territory and 3.3 square miles (8.5 km2) of it (29.11%) is water.
Bodies of water include Paxton Creek which empties into the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg, as well as Wildwood Lake and Italian Lake parks.
The Cumberland Valley lies directly to the west of Harrisburg and the Susquehanna River, stretching into northern Maryland.
Harrisburg is the northern fringe of the historic Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
The adjoining counties are Northumberland County to the north; Schuylkill County to the northeast; Lebanon County to the east; Lancaster County to the south; and York County to the southwest; Cumberland County to the west; and Perry County to the northwest.
Harrisburg, with the state capitol dome, as viewed from athwart the Susquehanna River in Wormleysburg Harrisburg's boundary is formed by the west shore of the Susquehanna River (the Susquehanna runs inside the town/city boundaries), which also serves as the boundary between Dauphin and Cumberland counties.
Like many of Pennsylvania's metros/cities and boroughs that are at "build-out" stage, there are a several townships outside of Harrisburg town/city limits that, although autonomous, use the name Harrisburg for postal and name-place designation.
The borough of Penbrook, positioned just east of Reservoir Park, was previously known as East Harrisburg.
Penbrook, along with the borough of Paxtang, also positioned just outside the town/city limits, maintain Harrisburg zip codes as well.
The United States Postal Service designates 26 zip codes for Harrisburg, including 13 for official use by federal and state government agencies. The snowiest month on record was in February 2010 when 42 in (107 cm) of snow was recorded at Harrisburg International Airport. Overall Harrisburg receives an average of 30.6 in (77.7 cm) of snow annually.
Climate data for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Harrisburg Int'l), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1888 present Center City Harrisburg, which includes the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex, is the central core company and financial center for the greater Harrisburg urbane region and serves as the seat of government for Dauphin County and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg is home to the Pennsylvania State Capitol.
The state capitol is only the third-tallest building of Harrisburg.
The five tallest buildings are 333 Market Street with a height of 341 feet (104 m), Pennsylvania Place with a height of 291 feet (89 m), the Pennsylvania State Capitol with a height of 272 feet (83 m), Presbyterian Apartments with a height of 259 feet (79 m) and the Fulton Bank Building with a height of 255 feet (78 m). A town/city skyline, including the Pennsylvania State Capitol, beyond a river with bridges extending athwart the river on both sides of the photograph.
A panoramic of downtown Harrisburg from Wormleysburg, Pennsylvania, athwart the Susquehanna River from downtown.
Harvey Taylor Memorial Bridge on the far left, athwart the cityscape including the Pennsylvania State Capitol and City Island, to the Walnut Street Bridge and the Market Street Bridge, as seen in March 2013.
Harrisburg has one of the biggest Pennsylvania Dutch communities in the nation, and also has the nation's tenth-largest Swedish-American communities in the nation.
At that time Harrisburg was a small, but substantial colonial town with a populace of 875 residents. With the increase of the city's eminence as an industrialized and transit center, Harrisburg reached its peak populace build up in 1950, topping out at nearly 90,000 residents.
Since the 1950s, Harrisburg, along with other northeastern urban centers large and small, has experienced a declining populace that is ultimately fueling the expansion of its suburbs, although the diminish which was very rapid in the 1960s and 1970s has slowed considerably since the 1980s. Unlike Western and Southern states, Pennsylvania maintains a complex fitness of municipalities and has very little legislation on either the annexation/expansion of metros/cities or the consolidating of municipal entities.
In 2006, the urban populace of the Harrisburg region increased to 383,008 from 362,782 in 2000, a change of 20,226 citizens . In 2004 the Harrisburg region was listed with Lebanon and York as an urban agglomeration, or a adjoining region of continuously advanced urban land, signifying a future consolidation of the York-Hanover and Harrisburg urbane areas, which would problematic a urbane region of over 1 million.
See also: List of companies based in the Harrisburg region Harrisburg is the urbane center for some 400 communities. Its economy and more than 45,000 businesses are diversified with a large representation of service-related industries, especially health-care and a burgeoning technological and biotechnology trade to accompany the dominant government field inherent to being the state's capital.
10 Pinnacle - Health System, including Harrisburg Hospital and Polyclinic Medical Center 3,997 Health-care and hospital fitness See also: Central Pennsylvania accent, Pennsylvania Dutch Country, and Pennsylvania Dutch English Formerly the site of a market in Downtown Harrisburg, today it is a enhance transport core and commercial center.
Downtown Harrisburg has two primary performance centers.
Beginning in 2001, downtown Harrisburg saw a surge of commercial eveninglife development.
This has been credited with reversing the city's financial decline, and has made downtown Harrisburg a destination for affairs from jazz celebrations to Top-40 eveningclubs.
Harrisburg is also the home of the annual Pennsylvania Farm Show, the biggest agricultural exhibition of its kind in the nation.
In 2004, Harrisburg hosted Cow - Parade, an global enhance art exhibit that has been featured in primary cities all over the world.
Harrisburg region is part of the Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York media market which consists of the lower counties in south central Pennsylvania and borders the media markets of Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The Harrisburg region has a several newspapers.
The Patriot-News, which is presented in Cumberland County, serves the Harrisburg region and has a tri-weekly circulation of over 100,000.
The Sentinel, which is presented in Carlisle, roughly 20 miles west of Harrisburg, serves many of Harrisburg's suburbs in Cumberland County.
The Press and Journal, presented in Middletown, is one of many weekly, general knowledge newspapers in the Harrisburg area.
Harrisburg has a several monthly improve newspapers, including MODE Magazine (publishing since 1996), Urban Connection, and The - Burg.
Only one non-municipal portal website exists for the town/city of Harrisburg, Harrisburg - PA.com.
The Harrisburg TV market is served by: Broadcast tv in the Susquehanna Valley, including Harrisburg, Lancaster and York Radio stations in the Harrisburg Lebanon Carlisle, Pennsylvania, market This is a list of FM stations in the greater Harrisburg, Pennsylvania urbane area.
WXPH 88.7 FM WXPN relay, University of Pennsylvania Harrisburg WRVV 97.3 FM "The River" Classic Hits and the Best of Today's Rock Harrisburg This is a list of AM stations in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania urbane area: Several feature films and tv series have been filmed or set in and around Harrisburg and the greater Susquehanna Valley.
Pennsylvania Holocaust Memorial along Harrisburg's Riverfront Park/Capital Area Greenbelt See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania and List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Dauphin County Dauphin County Veteran's Memorial Obelisk inspired by the classic Roman/Egyptian obelisk form; positioned in uptown Harrisburg Dauphin Narrows Statue of Liberty on the Susquehanna River north of Harrisburg Fort Hunter Mansion and Park, positioned north of downtown Harrisburg on a bluff overlooking the Susquehanna River John Harris Simon Cameron Mansion, a National Historic Landmark positioned in downtown Harrisburg along the river Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex, the center of government for the commonwealth and home to the state capitol building, state archives, and state library Susquehanna art exhibition, formerly positioned in downtown Harrisburg, and presently preparing a new locale in the Midtown precinct Harrisburg serves as the core of experienced sports in South Central Pennsylvania.
A host of squads compete in the region including three experienced baseball teams, the Harrisburg Senators, the Lancaster Barnstormers, and the York Revolution.
In 1940, Harrisburg attained an Interstate League team affiliated with the Pittsburgh Pirates; however, the team remained in the town/city only until 1943, when it moved to close-by York and retitled the York Pirates.
The current Harrisburg Senators, affiliated with the Washington Nationals, have won the Eastern League championship in the 1987, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 seasons.
Harrisburg City Islanders USL, Soccer FNB Field 2004 1 Harrisburg Heat MASL, Indoor soccer Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex 2012 0 Harrisburg Lunatics PIHA, Inline hockey Susquehanna Sports Center 2001 0 Harrisburg RFC EPRU, MARFU, Rugby Cibort Park, Bressler 1969 1 Main articles: List of mayors of Harrisburg and Harrisburg City Council City Government Center, the only town/city hall in the United States titled for a Civil Rights Movement leader, serves as a central locale for the administrative functions of the city. Harrisburg has been served since 1970 by the "strong mayor" form of municipal government, with separate executive and legislative chapters.
The town/city has 721 employees (2003). The current mayor of Harrisburg is Eric R.
There are two other propel town/city posts, town/city treasurer and town/city controller, who separately head their own fiscally related offices.
Harrisburg is also known nationally for its use of a two tiered territory value taxation.
Reed, as well as by the city's former town/city manager amid the 1980s with reducing the number of vacant structures positioned in downtown Harrisburg from about 4,200 in 1982 to severaler than 500 in 1995. During this same reconstructionof time between 1982 and 1995, nearly 4,700 more town/city residents became employed, the crime rate dropped 22.5% and the fire rate dropped 51%. Harrisburg, as well as nearly 20 other Pennsylvania cities, employs a two-rate or split-rate property tax, which requires the taxing of the value of territory at a higher rate and the value of the buildings and improvements at a lower one.
In 2000, Florenz Plassmann and Nicolaus Tideman wrote that when comparing Pennsylvania metros/cities using a higher tax rate on territory value and a lower rate on improvements with similar sized Pennsylvania metros/cities using the same rate on territory and improvements, the higher territory value taxation leads to increased assembly inside the jurisdiction. Dauphin County Courthouse positioned along the Susquehanna River at Front and Market Streets in downtown Harrisburg.
Dauphin County Government Complex, in downtown Harrisburg, serves the administrative functions of the county.
The trial court of general jurisdiction for Harrisburg rests with the Court of Dauphin County and is largely funded and directed by county resources and employees.
The Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex dominates the city's create as a county-wide and nationwide hub for government and politics.
The Commonwealth Judicial Center homes Pennsylvania's three appellate courts, which are positioned in Harrisburg.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, which is the court of last resort in the state, hears arguments in Harrisburg as well as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
The Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse, positioned in downtown Harrisburg, serves as the county-wide administrative offices of the federal government.
Due to Harrisburg's eminence as the state capital, federal offices for nearly every agency are positioned inside the city.
Military bases in the Harrisburg region include: Fort Indiantown Gap Fort Indiantown Gap Managed by the Army, the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and the Pennsylvania National Guard (PANG), it serves as a military training and staging area.
Harrisburg Air Guard Base Middletown Home to the 193rd Special Operations Wing, it is positioned on the former Olmsted Air Force Base, which closed in the early 1970s and became Harrisburg International Airport Domestic and International airlines furnish services via Harrisburg International Airport (MDT), which is positioned southeast of the town/city in Middletown.
Capital City Airport (CXY), a moderate-sized company class and general aviation airport, is positioned athwart the Susquehanna River in the close-by suburb of New Cumberland, south of Harrisburg.
Harrisburg is served by Capital Area Transit (CAT) which provides enhance bus, paratransit, and commuter rail service throughout the greater urbane area.
Due to lack of support from the county commissioners, the Cumberland County portion, and the two new stations in Harrisburg have been removed from the project.
In the future, with support from Cumberland County, the commuter rail universal may extend to both shores of the Susquehanna River, where the majority of the commuting base for the Harrisburg urbane region resides. It will link downtown Harrisburg with its easterly suburbs in Dauphin and Lebanon counties, including the areas of Hummelstown, Hershey and Lebanon, and the town/city of York in York County. Future passenger rail corridors also include Route 15 from the Harrisburg region towards Gettysburg, as well as the Susquehanna River communities north of Harrisburg, and the Northern Susquehanna Valley region. The lower level of the Harrisburg Transport Center serves as the city's intercity bus terminal.
They connect Harrisburg to other Pennsylvania metros/cities such as Allentown, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Reading, Scranton, State College, Williamsport, and York and nearby, out-of-state metros/cities such as Baltimore, Binghamton, New York, Syracuse, and Washington, D.C., plus many other destinations via transfers. Curbside intercity bus service is also provided by Megabus from the parking lot of the Harrisburg Mall in close-by Swatara Township, with direct service to Philadelphia, State College, and Pittsburgh.
The enhance transit provider in York County, Rabbit Transit, operates its Rabbit - EXPRESS bus service on weekdays between the town/city of York and both downtown Harrisburg and the chief campus for Harrisburg Area Community College.
The commuter-oriented service is designed to serve York County inhabitants who work in Harrisburg, though reverse commutes are possible under the current schedule.
Buses running this route make limited stops in the town/city of York and at two park and rides along Interstate 83 between York and Harrisburg before making various stops in Pennsylvania's capital city.
A charter/tour bus operator, R & J Transport, also provides weekday, scheduled route commuter service for citizens working in downtown Harrisburg.
R & J, which is based in Schuylkill County, operates two lines, one between Frackville and downtown Harrisburg and the other between Minersville, Pine Grove, and downtown Harrisburg.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's chief line from New York to Chicago passed through Harrisburg.
Norfolk Southern acquired all of Conrail's lines in the Harrisburg region and has continued the city's function as a freight rail hub.
Norfolk Southern considers Harrisburg one of many major hubs in its system, and operates 2 intermodal (rail/truck transfer) yards in the immediate Harrisburg area. The Harrisburg Intermodal Yard (formerly called Lucknow Yard) is positioned in the north end of Harrisburg, approximately 3 miles north of downtown Harrisburg and the Harrisburg Transport Center, while the Rutherford Intermodal Yard is positioned approximately 6 miles east of downtown Harrisburg in Swatara Township, Dauphin County.
Norfolk Southern also operates a momentous classification yard in the Harrisburg area, the Enola Yard, which is positioned athwart the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County.
The passenger rail operator runs its Keystone and Pennsylvanian services between New York, Philadelphia, and the Harrisburg Transportation Center daily.
As of April 2007, Amtrak operates 14 weekday roundtrips and 8 weekend roundtrips daily between Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Philadelphia 30th Street Station; most of these trains also travel to and from New York Penn Station.
As of Federal Fiscal Year 2008, the Harrisburg Transportation Center was the 2nd busiest Amtrak station in Pennsylvania and 21st busiest in the United States. Harrisburg is the locale of over a dozen large bridges, many up to a mile long, that cross the Susquehanna River.
Several other meaningful structures span the Paxton Creek watershed and Cameron Street, linking Center City with neighborhoods in East Harrisburg.
Main article: Harrisburg School District (Pennsylvania) The City of Harrisburg is served by the Harrisburg School District.
In the summer of 2007, more than 2,000 town/city students were enrolled in educational programs offered by the Harrisburg School District as remediation. The District has been among the lowest ranking districts for academics in the Commonwealth, ranking 492nd out of 496 precinct ranked by the Pittsburgh Business Times, in 2014. Additionally, a several of the Harrisburg School District's school have been listed on the lowest 15% achievement list each year since 2011.
Scholarships, funded by businesses, are available to attend another enhance school precinct or a private school. One school in the Harrisburg School District has had persistently adequate academic achievement, Math Science Academy serves pupils grades 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th. In 2003, Sci - Tech High, a county-wide math and science magnet school (affiliated with Harrisburg University), opened its doors to small-town students.
The town/city also has a several enhance charter schools: Infinity Charter School, Sylvan Heights Science Charter School, Premier Arts and Science Charter School and Capital Area School for the Arts.
The Central Dauphin School District, the biggest enhance school precinct in the urbane region and the 13th biggest in Pennsylvania, has a several Harrisburg postal addresses for many of the District's schools.
Steelton-Highspire School District borders much of the Harrisburg School District.
There are nearly 40 church-driven elementary schools and seven Catholic high schools inside the region administered by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, including Bishop Mc - Devitt High School and Trinity High School.
Numerous other private schools, such as The Londonderry School and The Circle School, which is a Sudbury Model school, also operate in Harrisburg.
Harrisburg Academy, established in 1784, is one of the earliest autonomous college preliminary schools in the nation.
Also, Harrisburg is home to Harrisburg Christian School, established in 1955. Dixon University Center, positioned in Uptown, serves as the office of Chancellor and the central command posts of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE).
Harrisburg Area Community College: the initial campus of the college, the Harrisburg Campus, and Penn Center and Midtown ground which are chapters of the Harrisburg Campus are positioned in Harrisburg.
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, positioned in Center City.
Messiah College's Harrisburg Institute, positioned in Center City Penn State Harrisburg Eastgate Center, positioned in Center City.
Temple University Harrisburg Campus, positioned in Center City.
Widener University Harrisburg Campus including its School of Law Elizabethtown College is a consortium member of the Dixon University Center, offering seven accelerated, undergraduate degree programs in the Harrisburg area.
Penn State Harrisburg (Main Campus), positioned nearby in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Dauphin County Library System, with eight chapters in Harrisburg and suburban Dauphin County Mc - Cormick Library of Harrisburg Area Community College Penn State Harrisburg Library State Library of Pennsylvania, which includes the Pennsylvania Law Library Harrisburg has two official sister metros/cities as designated by Sister Cities International: Because it is the seat of government for the state and lies mostly close to other urban centers, Harrisburg has played a momentous part in the nation's political, cultural and industrialized history.
"Harrisburgers" have also taken a dominant role in the evolution of Pennsylvania's history for over two centuries.
Many notable individuals are interred at Harrisburg Cemetery and East Harrisburg Cemetery.
Betty Andujar, first Republican woman to serve in the Texas State Senate (1973 1983), was born in Harrisburg in 1912.
Miller, Harrisburg City Controller John O'Hara, author, a native of Pottsville, lived in Harrisburg briefly to write his novel about the city, A Rage to Live Robert Stevenson, actor and politician, born 1915 in Harrisburg, Los Angeles City Council member Official records for Harrisburg kept at downtown from July 1888 to December 1938, Capital City Airport from January 1939 to September 1991, and at Harrisburg Int'l in Middletown since October 1991. "Harrisburg City Coucil Homepage".
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