Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
1895 - Harrisburg

Harrisburg, a city, capital of Pennsylvania and of Dauphin co., is pleasantly situated on the E. bank of the Susquehanna River, 106 miles W. by N. of Philadelphia, 85 miles N. of Baltimore, and 120 miles N. of Washington, Lat. 40° 16' N.; lon. 76° 50'W. It is on the Pennsylvania and Northern Central Railroads, and is the N.E. terminus of the Cumberland Valley Railroad and the Philadelphia, Harrisburg & Pittsburg Railroad, which connect with the Lebanon Valley Railroad. Three railroad bridges here cross the river, which is 1 mile wide and flows through picturesque scenery. The capitol, a brick edifice, is located on an eminence in a park of 16 acres, and contains the state library, of about 40,000 volumes. The city has a government building, a court-house, 50 churches, the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, a state arsenal, a general hospital, an opera-house, 3 academies, 3 national banks, 3 other banks, and 2 handsome public monuments. Four daily and 12 weekly newspapers are published here. The prosperity of this 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. mills, plate-mills, machine-shops, flour-mills, and manufactories of Bessemer steel, railroad-cars, carriages, boiler, cotton goods, bricks, &c. Harrisburg is the see of a Roman Catholic bishop. It became the capital of the state in 1810, and was incorporated as a city in 1860. Pop, in 1850, 7834; in 1860, 13,400; in 1870, 23,104; in 1880, 30,762; in 1890, 39,385.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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