Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2020
Abstract
The City Beautiful movement in Harrisburg brought many improve- ments to the capital city, but it also brought destruction to the diverse neighborhood directly east of the capitol building, known today as the “Old Eighth Ward.” Even though this community no longer exists, newspaper accounts of its razing and digital mapping of the families of the Old Eighth Ward preserve this story of displacement within public memory.
Recommended Citation
Williams, Rachel, "History and Memory of the Old Eighth Ward" (2020). Pennsylvania History Articles. 8.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/pahistory/8
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Comments
This edited collection was developed and published in tandem with the IIPT-Commonwealth Monument Project (2018-2020), with support and funding from Messiah University's Center for Public Humanities and the Council of Independent College's Humanities Research for the Public Good Grant Program.
Originally published as:
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies , Vol. 87, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE:
HARRISBURG, DIGITAL PUBLIC HISTORY, AND THE “CITY BEAUTIFUL” (Winter 2020), pp. 164-178.