News & Events Archive
From 2013
- May 12, 2013
- Mother's Day: Second Sunday Open House
- May 1, 2013
- Spring Bus Trip to Washington DC
- April 14, 2013
- Second Sunday Open House: Harrisburg Stoneware Potters and Their Contemporaries
- April 6, 2013
- Blast from the Past: The Roaring Twenties
- March 27, 2013
- Historical Society Annual Meeting
- March 10, 2013
- Second Sunday Open House: Quintessential Flapper from Head to Toe
- February 27, 2013
- Historical Society of Dauphin County appoints Executive Director
- February 10, 2013
- Second Sunday Open House: The Art of the State Capitol
- January, 2013
- See Our Ad in the January, 2013 Susquehanna Style
- January 13, 2013
- "Civil War Harrisburg" by speaker James E. Schmick
From 2012
- December 9, 2012
- Second Sundays - Holiday House Tours
- November 28, 2012
- Deck the Halls Gala Honoring Greg and Susie Sutliff
- November 11, 2012
- Second Sundays: "Major Dick Winters Remembered"
- October 17, 2012
- "It'll be History" Program on Coming Presidential Election
- October 14, 2012
- Second Sundays Featuring 1812 Panel Presentation
- October 4, 2012
- Barnes Foundation and American Jewish History Museum Bus Trip
- September 9, 2012
- Art Association of Harrisburg Gallery Walk
- August 15, 2012
- Happy Hour Mixer with Historic Harrisburg Association
- August 12, 2012
- Second Sundays Featuring the Works of Two Local Artists
- July 4, 2012
- Fourth of July Celebration
- July 1, 2012
- Program and Exhibit on Tropical Storm Agnes
- June 24, 2012
- Program and Exhibit on Tropical Storm Agnes
- June 10, 2012
- Family Concert, Stephen Foster: American Dreamer
- May 15 to June 19 2012
- Exhibit: The Graydon Family of Early Harrisburg
- May 17, 2012
- Bus Trip to Bedford Springs Inn and Flight 93 Memorial
- May 15, 2012
- William Graydon Portrayed by Rev. David Biser & Annual Meeting
- May 12, 2012
- Victorian Tea and Conversation
- May 10, 2012
- At Mount Hill Tavern: An Evening with John Harris, Jr.
- May 1 to May 18, 2012
- Mary Sachs Exhibit at Strawberry Square
- April 29, 2012
- At Tinian: Open House and House History Presentation
- April 24 to May 12, 2012
- Harrisburg Walking Tours
- April 17, 2012
- Third Tuesdays: Student History Day Presentations
- April 14, 2012
- 2012 Blast from the Past - RMS Titanic Maiden Voyage
- April 3, 2012
- Third Tuesdays: Multi-racial Imagery of Migrant Mothers
- March 11, 2012
- Second Sundays Mansion and Research Library Hours
- February 21, 2012
- Third Tuesdays: African-American Spirituals
From 2011
- December 11, 2011
- Mansion Tours and Research Library Hours
- December 7, 2011
- Deck the Halls Gala Honoring the Olewine Family
- November 30, 2011
- Presentation and Book Signing on Columns of Paul Beers
- November 20, 2011
- First Program of the Women of the Emancipation Series
- November 15, 2011
- Third Tuesdays and Book Signing: Harrisburg Broadcasting
- November 13, 2011
- Shaker Box-Making Demo and Mansion and Research Library Hours
- October 18, 2011
- Third Tuesdays: PA Dutch Powwowing and the Hex Murders
- October 13, 2011
- Bus Trip to Fonthill, Mercer Museum, and Pearl S. Buck House
- October 9, 2011
- Second Sundays Mansion and Research Library Hours
- September 24, 2011
- Smithsonian Museum Day
- September 20, 2011
- Third Tuesdays: Little Known Facts of Harris-Cameron Mansion History
- September 18, 2011
- Gallery Walk - Dauphin County on the Eve of the Civil War
- September 11, 2011
- Second Sundays Mansion and Research Library Hours
- September 5, 2011
- Closed for Labor Day
- September 4, 2011
- Labor Day Lyceum
- August 14, 2011
- Second Sundays at the Mansion and Wood Carving Demonstration
- August 13
- 1863 Confederate Invasion of Mechanicsburg & Harrisburg Bus Trip
- July 4, 2011
- Reenactment Reading of the Declaration of Independence
- June 25, 2011
- 1863 Confederate Invasion of Mechanicsburg & Harrisburg Bus Trip
- June 3, 2011
- In Selinsgrove: Opening of Simon Snyder Exhibit
- May 20 to June 25
- Harrisburg: Civil War City at the History Center
- June 15, 2011
- Tea with Mary Todd Lincoln
- May 17, 2011
- 3rd Tuesdays: Civil War Battle Flags of Pennsylvania
- May 5, 2011
- Bus Trip to Lincoln Cottage and Woodrow Wilson House
- April 23, 2011
- Walking Tour of City Square
- April 19, 2011
- 3rd Tuesdays: History Day Project Presentations
- April 16, 2011
- Walking Tour of Capitol District
- April 9, 2011
- Walking Tour of Midtown Market District
- April 2, 2011
- Walking Tour of Shipoke Historical District
- April 2, 2011
- New Volunteer Tour Guide Orientation
- March 29, 2011
- Blast from the Past: The Whiskey Rebellion Revisited
- March 15, 2011
- 3rd Tuesdays: The Pennsylvania Female College, 1853-1861
- Sometime in March, 2011
- "Who Do You Think You Are?"
- February 18 - 19, 2011
- Civil War 150 Commemoration Weekend
- February 15, 2011
- 3rd Tuesdays: History of Market Square Presbyterian Church
From 2010
- December 12, 2010
- HHA's House Tour and A Stop at the Mansion
- December 8, 2010
- Deck the Halls Gala
- December 4, 2010
- "Building Harrisburg" Book Signing with Ken Frew
- November 16, 2010
- Preserving your Personal Past
- November 12, 2010
- Popular Chef to Host Cooking Demo and Tasting
- November 11, 2010
- "The Blue Orchard" Author Jackson Taylor to Speak
- November 5 to 7, 2010
- US Colored Troops Grand Review Weekend
- October 19, 2010
- The US Colored Troops Who Called Dauphin County Home
- October 15, 2010
- History Center Members Night and Exhibit Opening
- October 13, 2010
- Boyd Genealogy Meeting in Camp Hill
- October 9, 2010
- Saturday Research Library Hours
- October 7, 2010
- Baltimore Museum of Art and Homewood Museum Bus Trip
- September 21, 2010
- Central Pennsylvania's Personal Civil War
- September 15, 2010
- Greater Harrisburg's Jewish Community
- September 11, 2010
- Saturday Research Library Hours
- August 14, 2010
- Saturday Research Library Hours
- July 10, 2010
- Saturday Research Library Hours
- June 26, 2010
- ICP-Harrisburg 150 Genealogy Workshop
- June 24, 2010
- HSDC Members Only Evening at the History Center
- June 12, 2010
- Saturday Research Library Hours
- May 20, 2010
- Bus Trip to Winterthur and the Nemours Mansion
- May 11, 2010
- STAS: A Converstation with Thaddeus Stevens
- May 9, 2010
- Mother's Day Tea and Open House
- May 8, 2010
- Saturday Research Library Hours
- April 23, 2010
- Blast from the Past, 1960 Style
- April 17, 2010
- The 2010 History Center Opens
- April 13, 2010
- STAS: National History Day projects
- April 10, 2010
- 2nd Saturday Research Library Hours
- March 9, 2010
- STAS: A Conversation with Mary S. Beatty and HSDC's Annual Members' Meeting
- February 16, 2010
- STAS: A Conversation with T. Morris Chester
- January 12, 2010
- STAS: A Snapshot of Harrisburg c1860
From 2009
- December 8, 2009
- STAS: A Conversation with the Camerons
- December 2, 2009
- Annual Deck the Halls Celebration
- November 10, 2009
- STAS: A Second Conversation with John Harris, Jr.
- November 5, 2009
- Building Harrisburg Book Signing
- October 14, 2009
- Bus Trip to Georgetown
- October 13, 2009
- STAS: A Conversation with Judge Thomas Elder
- October 13, 2009
- Friends of the Harris-Cameron Mansion Meeting
- October 10, 2009
- Saturday Library Hours
- September 26, 2009
- Smithsonian Museum Day
- September 12, 2009
- Saturday Library Hours
- September 8, 2009
- STAS: A Conversation with John Harris, Jr.
- August 9, 2009
- Mansion Partners with ShopforMuseums.com
- August 8, 2009
- Saturday Library Hours
- August 1, 2009
- Speaker Series Moves to Second Tuesdays at Seven (STAS)
- August 1, 2009
- New Mansion and Library Hours
- July 19, 2009
- Blast from the Past: Woodstock™
- May 18, 2009
- MATM: Philadelphia to Hollidaysburg on the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal and Public Works
- May 13, 2009
- 14th Annual John Harris Open
- May 7, 2009
- Bus Trip to Hampton & Ladew Topiary Gardens
- April 14, 2009
- MATM: History Day Presentations
- March 16, 2009
- MATM: East Meets West: The Indian Community in Central Pennsylvania
- February 9, 2009
- MATM: The Families of Midland Cemetery
- January 12, 2009
- MATM: Elizabeth S. Drinker: Mothers, Daughters, and the Horizons of Birth in Colonial Pennsylvania
From 2008
- December 3, 2008
- Deck the Halls: Recognizing the Honorable LeRoy S. Zimmerman
- November 17, 2008
- MATM: Musical Entertainment in the 1800's and early 1900's
- October 20, 2008
- MATM: Art from the Carlisle Indian School
- October 12, 2008
- Trolley Tour & Open Home
- September 27, 2008
- Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day
- September 15, 2008
- MATM: Pennsylvania's Little New Deal
- June 8, 2008
- Steelton Exhibit Opening and Book Signing
- May 21, 2008
- 13th Annual John Harris Golf Open
- May 12, 2008
- MATM: Restoration Stories
- May 11, 2008
- Mother's Day Tea
- April 13, 2008
- Exhibit Opening: Dauphin County in the New Deal Era
- April 11, 2008
- Blast from the Past: The Repeal of Prohibition
- March 17, 2008
- MATM: History Day Presentations
- March 13, 2008
- Society Receives Conservation Bookshelf
- February 11, 2008
- MATM: Black History Month Program
- January 14, 2008
- MATM: 70 Years of Hershey Bears Hockey
From 2007
- December 6, 2007
- Deck the Halls: Recognizing Carroll "Dan" F. Purdy, Jr.
- December 2, 2007
- Visit with St. Nicholas
- November 19, 2007
- MATM: Harrisburg before the Flood: Select News Photos and Commentary, 1952 - 1972
- October 17, 2007
- Bus Trip to Mount Vernon
- October 15, 2007
- MATM: Old Theaters of Harrisburg
- September 24, 2007
- MATM: Gone to be a Soldier: Young George Washington and the French and Indian War
- June 1, 2007
- Historic Harrisburg Association Research Library on Loan at HSDC
- June 1, 2007
- Announcing the Allied Pix Cataloging Project
- May 23, 2007
- 12th Annual John Harris Golf Open
- May 15 and 16, 2007
- Bus Trip to the Greenbrier Resort Bunker
- May 14, 2007
- MATM: The Manada Conservancy
- April 9, 2007
- MATM: History through the Eyes of Youth
- March 28, 2007
- Mary Sachs Special Exhibit Grand Opening
- March 12, 2007
- Annual Meeting and MATM: Genevieve Blatt, the First Lady of Pennsylvania Politics
- February 12, 2007
- MATM: History of Baseball in Harrisburg and Rap Dixon's Nomination to Baseball's Hall of Fame
- January 8, 2007
- MATM: Origins and Conflicts of the Civil War