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The Scottish Rite Cathedral in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is a Masonic building located at 2701 N. Third St. in Harrisburg. It is home to the Valley of Harrisburg Consistory and concordant Scottish Rite Bodies, several Masonic “Blue Lodges”, York Rite bodies, and Masonic Youth groups. [1]
[3] Each Valley has up to four subordinate bodies, and each body confers a set of degrees. The four subordinate bodies are the Lodge of Perfection, which confers degrees 4 through 14, the Council of Princes of Jerusalem, which confers degrees 15 and 16, the Chapter of Rose Croix which confers the 17° and 18° and the consistory which confers ...
The Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area, officially the Harrisburg–Carlisle, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and also referred to as the Susquehanna Valley, is defined by the Office of Management and Budget as an area consisting of three counties in South Central Pennsylvania, anchored by the cities of Harrisburg and Carlisle.
On February 14, 1964, the Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) was founded as the first community college in Pennsylvania in the former Harrisburg Academy. In March 1965, the City of Harrisburg sold the college 157 acres (0.64 km 2 ) in Wildwood Park for a permanent campus.
Harrisburg's site along the Susquehanna River is thought to have been inhabited by Native Americans as early as 3000 BC. Known to the Native Americans as "Peixtin", or "Paxtang", the area was an important resting place and crossroads for Native American traders with trails leading from the Delaware to the Ohio rivers and from the Potomac to the Upper Susquehanna intersecting there.
Coudersport is located at (41.773903, -78.018559 [8]According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 5.7 square miles (15 km 2), all land.. Coudersport lies in a broad valley at the confluence of the Allegheny River and Mill Creek.
1831 Cumberland Valley Railroad completed. 1833 Harrisburg Nail Works opens across the river; 1834 Pennsylvania Canal opens at Harrisburg; Dauphin Deposit Bank established. 1836 First train enters Harrisburg, operated by the Harrisburg, Mount Joy, and Lancaster RR; 1837 Harrisburg's first railroad (RR) station built.
People from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (8 C, 96 P) Pages in category "History of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.