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Harrisburg is the county seat of
Dauphin County and lies on the east
bank of the Susquehanna River, 105
miles west-northwest of
Philadelphia. The
Harrisburg-Carlisle Metropolitan
Statistical Area, which includes
Dauphin, Cumberland, and Perry
counties, had a population of
509,074 in 2000. A July 1, 2007
estimate placed the population at
528,892, making it the fifth largest
Metropolitan Statistical Area in PA
after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton (the
Lehigh Valley), and Scranton-Wilkes
Barre. |
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During part of the 19th century,
the building of the Pennsylvania
Canal and later the Pennsylvania
Railroad, allowed Harrisburg to
become one of the most
industrialized cities in the
Northeastern United States. |
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The Attraction to
Harrisburg
[Complete
Story]
Donauschwaben in
Harrisburg
Harrisburg Danube Swabian Surname Registry
Local Genealogical
Research Aids
Harrisburg,
Dauphin Co., & Pennsylvania State
Records
Settling Down or
Moving On
[Coming
soon]
Population:
1890 39,385
1900 50,167
1910 64,186
1920 75,917
1930 80,339
1940 83,893
1950 89,544
1960 79,697
1970 68,061
1980 53,264
1990 52,376
2000 48,950
2007 47,196 |
Libraries
Dauphin County Law Library
Dauphin County Library System, with nine
branches in Harrisburg and suburban Dauphin
County
McCormick Library of Harrisburg Area Community
College
Local
Publications
The Harrisburg area has two daily newspapers.
The Patriot-News is published in Harrisburg and
has a daily circulation of over 100,000. The
Sentinel, which is published in Carlisle,
roughly 20 miles west of Harrisburg, serves many
of Harrisburg's western suburbs in Cumberland
County. |
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Poem of
Immigrants Leaving Banat
By Author Unknown
Now the time and hour have come,
We travel to America.
The carriage is in front of the door,
With wife and children we do go.
Friends well known,
Give me your hand one last time!
We shall never see each other again,
Friend do not weep too much!
Now we reach the open sea,
Here we see no Germans any more.
We fear no waterfall,
And believe God is everywhere.
We now reach Baltimore.
There we stretch our hands to the sky,
And cry out loud, “Victory!
We are now in America"
In June of 1891, electrified trolley cars
were introduced in the city, which replaced the
horse car lines on such principal arteries
leading from the City as Derry, State, Sixth,
Third and Second Streets.
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