Historical Markers

Since its creation in 1905, The State Museum of Pennsylvania has collected, preserved, researched, and interpreted the cultural and natural history of the state....

Efforts to organize public workers in PA resulted in Acts 111 in 1968 and 195 in 1970. Tens of thousands of public employees joined...

Created in 1903 as the Division of Public Records in the State Library, the State Archives safeguards and provides public access to records of...

After the state capitol was destroyed by fire on February 2, 1897, this church building became the temporary quarters of the state legislature while...

The first State Capitol on this site was designed and built by Stephen Hills, 1819-1821. It was first occupied by the Legislature on January...

This building, which replaced the old brick capitol, was designed by Joseph M. Huston, and erected, 1902-1906. It was dedicated on October 4, 1906,...

Civil rights leader and activist for women, she was the first African American Secretary of State in the nation. Championed the PA Equal...

Excluded from a May 1865 "Grand Review of the Armies" in Wash., DC, U.S. Colored Troops from Penna. and Mass. regiments assembled here at...

One of the most influential women in Pennsylvania politics in the 20th century. First woman to be elected to a statewide office, Secretary of...

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission declares the Pennsylvania State Capitol a Commonwealth Treasure For all to protect and preserve as a vital architectural...

In the 1850s this area, known as Tanner's Alley, was important on the Underground Railroad. Fugitive slaves hid at Joseph Bustill's & William Jones's...

U.S. Senator, 1877-97. Secretary of War under Ulysses Grant, 1876-77. President, Northern Central R.R., 1863-74. Son of Simon Cameron. His mansion here, acquired 1870,...

The second official Governor's residence occupied a site across this street. Originally a private home acquired in 1864, it was altered and enlarged by...

In the stone house opposite lived William Maclay, who as a member of the first U.S. Senate wrote a famous journal of its debates....

In 1785, the founder of Harrisburg set aside a four acre lot, now this section of Capitol Park, to be held in trust for...

A State-owned canal system, built 1826-34, to connect Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Lake Erie. The first lock on the canal to be dedicated March 13, 1827,...

On February 22, 1861, while journeying to Washington for his Inauguration, Lincoln stopped at the Jones House, on this site. From the portico of...

For over a century, farm produce was sold here in market sheds and from wagons at the curbs. The first sheds were built soon...

Printer, horticulturist, conservationist, and "City Beautiful" advocate. President, American Civic Association, 1904-24, and editor, "American Rose Annual," 1916-43. He worked successfully for preservation of...

Journalist, educator, lawyer. Born here, 1834. Taught in Liberia, 1857-61. Recruited Black soldiers in Civil War; noted as war correspondent. In Europe for freedmen's...

The Whig Convention of Dec. 1839 met in this church and nominated Wm. Henry Harrison for president, John Tyler for vice-president. Popularized as "Tippecanoe...

Covered wooden bridge, designed by Theodore Burr, was built here in 1813-17; called "Camel Back" because of its unique arch design. The structure, partly...

Served five governors from 1955 to 1979 in an extraordinary career as Secretary of the former Departments of Environmental Resources and Forests and Waters....

Fired from federal and state jobs because he was gay, this trail-blazing activist took his job discrimination case all the way to the U.S....

The first official Governor's mansion stood at this site. Purchased in 1858, it housed only two governors, Packer and Curtin. It was sold in...