Harrisburg, a city, capital of Pennsylvania and of Dauphin co., is pleasantly situated on the E. bank of the Susquehanna River, 105 miles W. by N. of Philadelphia and 85 miles N. by W. of Baltimore. Lat. 40° 16' N. j Ion. 76° 50' W. It is on the Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia and Reading, the Northern Central, and the Cumberland Valley Rs. Several railroad bridges here cross the river, which is 1 mile wide and flows through picturesque scenery. The city has a government building, court-house, state insane hospital, state arsenal, opera-house, and handsome public monuments, among the latter being the war monument, 110 feet high. The capitol building, located in a park of about 16 acres, was burned down in 1897 and a new building is now (1905) in course of construction to replace it. The state library has nearly 150,000 volumes. The prosperity of the city is largely derived from manufactures, for which its position is very favorable, as it has ready access to coal - and iron-mines. Here are several blast-furnaces, rolling-, plate- and flour-mills, machine-shops, and manufactories of Bessemer steel, railroad-cars, carriages, boilers, type- writers, beds, cotton and woollen goods, silks, boots and shoes, bricks, etc. Harrisburg is the see of a Roman Catholic bishop. It became the capital of the state in 1812 and was incorporated as a city in 1860. Pop. in 1870, 23,104; in 1880, 30,762 ; in 1890, 39,385 ; in 1900, 50,167.
Harrisburg, a city, capital of Pennsylvania and of Dauphin co., is pleasantly situated on the E. bank of the Susquehanna River, 105 miles W. by N. of Philadelphia and 85 miles N. by W. of Baltimore. Lat. 40° 16' N. j Ion. 76° 50' W. It is on the Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia and Reading, the Northern Central, and the Cumberland Valley Rs. Several railroad bridges here cross the river, which is 1 mile wide and flows through picturesque scenery. The city has a government building, court-house, state insane hospital, state arsenal, opera-house, and handsome public monuments, among the latter being the war monument, 110 feet high. The capitol building, located in a park of about 16 acres, was burned down in 1897 and a new building is now (1905) in course of construction to replace it. The state library has nearly 150,000 volumes. The prosperity of the city is largely derived from manufactures, for which its position is very favorable, as it has ready access to coal - and iron-mines. Here are several blast-furnaces, rolling-, plate- and flour-mills, machine-shops, and manufactories of Bessemer steel, railroad-cars, carriages, boilers, type- writers, beds, cotton and woollen goods, silks, boots and shoes, bricks, etc. Harrisburg is the see of a Roman Catholic bishop. It became the capital of the state in 1812 and was incorporated as a city in 1860. Pop. in 1870, 23,104; in 1880, 30,762 ; in 1890, 39,385 ; in 1900, 50,167.
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