Harrisburg Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  FNB Field

  Baseball came to this spot in 1907, and FNB Field now holds it, here on City Island in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This is the home field of the Harrisburg Senators, the Double-A Eastern League affiliate of the Washington Nationals, and was the home stadium of Penn FC of the USL.

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  Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center

  Picture the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center, formerly the State Farm Show Arena, known simply as the Farm Show. This large exhibition center and indoor arena in Harrisburg is primarily used for concerts, agricultural exhibitions, the Pennsylvania Farm Show and indoor football, and it hosts more than 200 other exhibits and trade shows every year.

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  Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex

  Notice the sprawling Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex, spread across more than 50 acres of downtown Harrisburg. Its centerpiece is the Pennsylvania State Capitol, constructed in 1902–1906 to a design by Joseph Miller Huston; the capitol is a nationally recognized example of Beaux Arts architecture, famed for its interior opulence and artwork.

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  City Island

  Out in the Susquehanna River between Harrisburg and Wormleysburg, City Island stretches a mile long under your feet. Right where you stand the island is used mainly for leisure and sports activities, but its story runs much deeper than a day of recreation.

• National Civil War Museum

  Reservoir Park in Harrisburg's Allison Hill neighborhood holds the National Civil War Museum at One Lincoln Circle. This privately owned, 501c(3) nonprofit was founded to promote the preservation of material culture and sources directly relevant to the American Civil War and the postwar period, especially as they relate to veterans' service organizations such as the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans.

All 28 stops

• Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex (Downtown Harrisburg)

  Notice the sprawling Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex, spread across more than 50 acres of downtown Harrisburg.

• Commonwealth (Harrisburg)

  Look up at Commonwealth, the 14-foot-6-inch gilded statue crowning the dome of the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg.

• State Library of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg)

  Benjamin Franklin's errand of December 5, 1745 grew into this building, the State Library of Pennsylvania, one of the Commonwealth's largest research libraries.

• Pennsylvania State Archives (Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex)

  Here at 1681 N. Sixth St., you face the Pennsylvania State Archives, the official archives for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

• State Museum of Pennsylvania (downtown Harrisburg)

  Governor Pennypacker's signature on March 28, 1905 created the State Museum of Pennsylvania, here at 300 North Street in downtown Harrisburg.

• A Gathering at the Crossroads (Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex)

  Bronze voices meet at A Gathering at the Crossroads, the African American monument on the southern end of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex.

• State Street Bridge (Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex)

  Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge is the other name for the State Street Bridge, 1,312 feet of concrete arch beneath you.

• Reservoir Park (Allison Hill)

  Picture 85 acres of parkland in the Allison Hill neighborhood — Reservoir Park, the oldest and largest municipal public park in Harrisburg.

• Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center (Harrisburg)

  Picture the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center, formerly the State Farm Show Arena, known simply as the Farm Show.

• National Civil War Museum (Allison Hill)

  Reservoir Park in Harrisburg's Allison Hill neighborhood holds the National Civil War Museum at One Lincoln Circle.

• Market Square (Downtown Harrisburg)

  Market Square has been Harrisburg's public heart since 1785, and you are at its center where 2nd and Market Streets cross.

• Old Downtown Harrisburg Commercial Historic District (Old Downtown Harrisburg)

  Fifty contributing buildings make up the Old Downtown Harrisburg Commercial Historic District in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983…

• Strawberry Square (downtown Harrisburg)

  Strawberry Square fills this stretch of downtown Harrisburg with retail, offices and ten restored 19th- and 20th-century buildings.

• Broad Street Market (Midtown)

  Farmers have sold here since 1863, which makes the Broad Street Market in Midtown Harrisburg one of the oldest continuously operating farmers markets in the…

• Susquehanna Art Museum (Midtown)

  A 1916 bank in Midtown Harrisburg now houses the Susquehanna Art Museum, the only dedicated art museum in Central Pennsylvania.

• Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts (Harrisburg)

  Science and the performing arts share one roof at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

• Colonial Theatre (Harrisburg)

  Hotel first, theater later: the Colonial Theatre, also known as the Lochiel Hotel, is the five-story brick front you see here in Harrisburg, Dauphin County.

• Keystone Building (Harrisburg)

  The Keystone Building rises in brick above a granite base.

• St. Stephen's Episcopal Cathedral (Downtown Harrisburg)

  St. Stephen's Episcopal Cathedral, on Front Street along the Susquehanna, once served as the mother church of the former Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania and…

• William R. Griffith House (Harrisburg)

  Ionic columns announce the William R. Griffith House, also called the Cathedral House of St. Stephen's Episcopal Cathedral, a Greek Revival home here in Harrisburg…

• Cathedral of Saint Patrick (downtown Harrisburg)

  Downtown Harrisburg's Catholic cathedral is the Cathedral of Saint Patrick, and it is right in front of you.

• Simon Cameron House (Harrisburg Historic District)

  Three names belong to this house at 219 South Front Street: the Simon Cameron House, the John Harris Mansion and the Harris–Cameron Mansion.

• Riverfront Park (Harrisburg)

  Riverfront Park runs beside the Susquehanna River here in Harrisburg, from Vaughn Street south to the I-83 John Harris Bridge.

• Dock Street Dam (Shipoke)

  Shipoke lies on this east shore and Lemoyne on the west, and between them the Dock Street Dam straddles the Susquehanna in front of you.

• Cumberland Valley Railroad Bridge (Downtown Harrisburg)

  Trains no longer cross the Cumberland Valley Railroad Bridge ahead of you.

• Market Street Bridge (Harrisburg)

  Stone arches, granite-hued, carry the Market Street Bridge and you across the Susquehanna River between Harrisburg and Wormleysburg.

• City Island (Harrisburg)

  Out in the Susquehanna River between Harrisburg and Wormleysburg, City Island stretches a mile long under your feet.

• FNB Field (City Island)

  Baseball came to this spot in 1907, and FNB Field now holds it, here on City Island in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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