Union Trust Building

Touted as "Harrisburg's First Skyscraper," the Union Trust Building was completed in 1906 and exemplified the beginning of Center City's 20th Century upward growth, particularly as spawned by the completion of the new State Capitol Building that year. It marked ...

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 ...

NSGW & Historic District

The Native Sons of the Golden West Hall has served for more than a century as a gathering place and social center of community activity within St. Helena. It is situated just outside the SW edge of the St. Helena ...

The Claster Building

This building was erected in 1920 for the offices of the Pennsylvania Public Services Commission and was one of the first buildings in downtown Harrisburg intended to be leased for state offices. Originally known as the Claster Building, having been ...

Officer Ronald L. Leist

1939 — 1969

Responding beyond

the call of duty

Police Officer Ronald Leist

sacrificed his life

in a heroic

attempt to rescue

a drowning man

in the Algoma Harbor

on Oct. 9, 1969

Marker can be reached from Steele Street east of Lake Street, on the right when traveling east. ...

Longstreet's Command

Kemper's Brigade, D.R. Jones' Division

C.S.A.

Longstreet's Command.

Kemper's Brigade, D.R. Jones' Division,

Brig. Gen. James L. Kemper, Commanding.

Organization.

1st, 7th, 11th, 17th and 24th Virginia Infantry.

(September 15-17, 1862.)

Kemper's Brigade reached Sharpsburg about noon September 15th and took position on Cemetery Hill. In the afternoon ...

The Adirondacks

Historic New York

Historic New York

The Adirondacks

The Adirondack Mountains, consisting of rocky peaks, sheer cliffs and narrow valleys, also have wooded slopes and sparkling lakes. Forty three mountains have elevations 4000 feet or higher. Mount Marcy, with an altitude of 5344 ...

Kanawha Division, Ninth Corps

U.S.A.

Kanawha Division, Ninth Corps.

Col. E.P. Scammon, 23d Ohio Infantry, Commanding.

September 16-17, 1862.

On the evening of September 16th the Kanawha Division was on the ridge east of the Antietam; Crook's Brigade north of the Burnside Bridge, Ewing's Brigade southeast of it. ...

Seven Days Battles

Gaines’s Mill

Here Lee and Stonewall Jackson conferred in the morning of June 27, 1862. Jackson’s troops halted here until A. P. Hill arrived from Beaver Dam Creek. Hill then moved southward by Gaines’s Mill and Longstreet turned to the east. ...

Pleasant Green Ward

Settlers came to this part of the valley around 1850 to farm and stock range. It was known as Pleasant Green and was part of the Brighton Ward of the Salt Lake Stake.

Traveling so far to meetings presented a ...