Harrisburg's Old Eighth Ward, Pennsylvania (Making of America Series)

Harrisburg was the capital of an increasingly urban and progressive Pennsylvania at the turn of the twentieth century, with the remnants of an older, more diverse city thriving in its midst. As the streets were paved for the first time and the new state capitol building rose over a humming industrial city ready to embrace change, Harrisburg's Eighth Ward clung to its rambunctious past. When the Old Eighth stood in the way of the new Capitol Park, one journalist asked his readers to take a s...