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Show AMERICANA Cities To Se Ha rrisburg Tra ding Center . ;- " . V ; ' I r ir rip: - k- tk5v1 From its earliest days, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Capital City, has been a transportation and trade center. In 1710, John Harris, Sr., a native of Yorkshire, England, selected a site for a trading post and ferry and in 1727 John Harris, Jr., founder of the city, was born. In 1791, Uie Assembly passed the Act designating the town of Harrisburg Har-risburg as a borough and in 1812 the town became the seat of Stat Government. WJ- Next to Philadelphia and Pitts burgh, Harrisburg is host to more conventions than any othr Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania community, averaging 125 each year. Harrisburg, a city of some 90,000 is the largest city on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad between Philadelphia, 100 miles east and Pittsburgh, 00 miles west. Harrisburg is 75 miles north of Baltimore, on the eastern bank of the Susquehanna River, flanked by the Blue Ridge Mountains. Moun-tains. Points of interest include the State Capitol Buildings, State Museum, Mu-seum, the John Harris Mansion, Fort Hunter Museum, Indian Echo Cave and the Bethlehem Steel Company operation the world's largest rail rolling plant and huge bridge shops. A few miles to the southwest is Gettysburg, site of the decisive battle of the Civil War. Gettysburg National Military Park contains more than 2,500 monuments, markers and tablets of granite and bronze. Gettysburg's College was founded in 1832. President Eisenhower's Eisen-hower's farm is just outside the town. Harrisburg Is a retail, wholesale whole-sale and commercial center. People Peo-ple from more than 400 communities communi-ties regularly shop in Harrisburg stores. Scores of national concerns have established distribution and regional centers here. The seventh city in size In Pennsylvania, Harrisburg Har-risburg Is the third in wholesale dollar volume. Steel products are an Important part of Harrisburg's economy, but production also includes leather products and rubber goods, clothing, cloth-ing, candy, dog food, food processing proces-sing machines, bricks, precision machinery, and other items. Coal is still reclaimed from the Susquehanna Sus-quehanna River. |