Joe McClure

1 week ago | pennlive.com | Joe McClure

Mira Lloyd Dock helped launch a revolution. Speaking to Harrisburg’s business leaders in late 1900, the reformer and botanist showed images comparing the ugliness of Harrisburg, especially a riverfront marred by sewage and garbage, with the beauty of cities in Europe and elsewhere in America. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.

4 weeks ago | pennlive.com | Joe McClure

Updated: Mar. 26, 2025, 8:06 a.m.|Published: Mar. 26, 2025, 8:00 a.m.Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a nationally known poet, lecturer and social reformer, lived in York for a time and spoke in Harrisburg.Wikimedia CommonsFrances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp sought equal rights for women. In their travels, these 19th-century figures lectured about abolition, temperance and women’s suffrage to a variety of audiences in central Pennsylvania, America and the world.

2 months ago | pennlive.com | Joe McClure

Updated: Feb. 13, 2025, 8:01 a.m.|Published: Feb. 13, 2025, 8:00 a.m.Dr. William H. Jones was a prominent Black doctor in Harrisburg who promoted the City Beautiful movement among African Americans in the early 20th century. harrisburghistorical.orgTwo Harrisburg men shared a name, William Jones. They both served as doctors. And both lived in the same part of town, the largely Black and immigrant Old 8th Ward. It was wiped out more than a century ago to expand the Capitol Complex.

Jan 17, 2025 | pennlive.com | Joe McClure

Updated: Jan. 17, 2025, 9:45 a.m.|Published: Jan. 17, 2025, 9:45 a.m.Shoppers gather at the Broad Street Market's wooden frame extension, across from the market's brick building, right, around 1900. Trolley tracks on Capital Street pass between the two buildings at lower right. Historical Society of Dauphin CountyThe space between the Broad Street Market’s two buildings has undergone changes in the 165 years since the market was established.

Dec 18, 2024 | pennlive.com | Joe McClure

A hiking and biking trail first envisioned more than a century ago and resurrected decades later could soon change. Last month, the Harrisburg City Council approved moving a housing project for homeless veterans off South Front Street near the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation building into the construction phase. The Tunnels to Towers Veterans Village is expected to house up to 84 veterans when it is completed next year.