Pics from Eleanor Rose's Northern Invasion

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Eleanor Rose has successfully crossed back over the Mason-Dixon Line! I received a warm welcome from my neighbors to the North and made sure to extend them an invitation to visit the South. Food was indeed plentiful, wine flowed freely and the photo opportunities were almost more than @Southern Unionist could handle. Of course, he did manage to take plenty so here we go CWT friends.............

Our first stop was Harrisburg, PA. We stayed in the heart of downtown and enjoyed visiting the Capitol, the riverfront and the National Civil War Museum.

The current Capitol is built on the site of the original. It is magnificent! I have visited many state capitol buildings over the years and this has to be the most impressive one I have ever seen.

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Of course, I found the Capitol's rose garden!

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This historical marker, memorializing the Grand Review Of Civil War Colored Troops, is located directly behind the Capitol.

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We dined in a 1913 riverfront mansion, along the Susquehanna River. The city's riverboat can be seen passing by.

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Harrisburg has a very pedestrian friendly downtown. This pedestrian bridge goes to the city park.

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This was sculpted from a single tree trunk near the pedestrian bridge. I loved it!

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We'll head to the National Civil War Museum tomorrow. It was awesome!!
 
Great photos, @Eleanor Rose :smile: The interior of the Capitol building is awesome, and I noticed your shirt matched the rose bushes, too :smile: Very colour co-ordinated shot :wink: I am glad the coloured troops got the opportunity to march in a Grand Review, and the carving from the tree is amazing! Thanks for sharing, and glad you got home safe. Looking forward to seeing more btw.
 
Eleanor Rose has successfully crossed back over the Mason-Dixon Line! I received a warm welcome from my neighbors to the North and made sure to extend them an invitation to visit the South. Food was indeed plentiful, wine flowed freely and the photo opportunities were almost more than @Southern Unionist could handle. Of course, he did manage to take plenty so here we go CWT friends.............

Our first stop was Harrisburg, PA. We stayed in the heart of downtown and enjoyed visiting the Capitol, the riverfront and the National Civil War Museum.

The current Capitol is built on the site of the original. It is magnificent! I have visited many state capitol buildings over the years and this has to be the most impressive one I have ever seen.

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Of course, I found the Capitol's rose garden!

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This historical marker, memorializing the Grand Review Of Civil War Colored Troops, is located directly behind the Capitol.

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We dined in a 1913 riverfront mansion, along the Susquehanna River. The city's riverboat can be seen passing by.

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Harrisburg has a very pedestrian friendly downtown. This pedestrian bridge goes to the city park.

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This was sculpted from a single tree trunk near the pedestrian bridge. I loved it!

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We'll head to the National Civil War Museum tomorrow. It was awesome!!
Great photos, @Eleanor Rose . Glad you had a great time.
 
Every time I look back through the trip photos, I keep getting stuck in the PA capitol section. That building is so incredibly photogenic. I could spend all day just walking around staring at architectural details. This building was built in the first decade of the twentieth century, so quite a few CW veterans lived to see it. It reflects the incredible wealth produced by Pennsylvania's postwar prosperity, as nearly all the economic growth of the US shifted to PA, Massachusetts, and New York. I've not found a comparable government building in the Northeast, so I don't know why it isn't better known.

Our first post shows only two of the six panels cast in bronze in the original front doors. Just inside those doors, up high where most visitors wouldn't notice them, are a pair of sculptures facing each other that would be the pride of most buildings or houses:

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Everywhere you look, there is gold leaf. Real gold, not paint. Nobody knows how many pounds of gold are in there. These support brackets are quite common:

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Here's a few more of the capitol pics that didn't make the cut for the first post. Some of them are telephoto time exposures that required creative bracing, with no tripod available.

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Directly behind me in that last shot, a major bridge that used to carry the main highway from Philadelphia. It ends with an unusual war memorial at the near end. On both sides of the road, there is a square column with information at its base about all major wars in which Pennsylvania citizens have participated. At the top of each one is a highly stylized rendering of an eagle clutching arrows in one talon:

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Their Civil War museum is in this direction, about a mile beyond the bridge.
 
Every time I look back through the trip photos, I keep getting stuck in the PA capitol section. That building is so incredibly photogenic. I could spend all day just walking around staring at architectural details. This building was built in the first decade of the twentieth century, so quite a few CW veterans lived to see it. It reflects the incredible wealth produced by Pennsylvania's postwar prosperity, as nearly all the economic growth of the US shifted to PA, Massachusetts, and New York. I've not found a comparable government building in the Northeast, so I don't know why it isn't better known.

Our first post shows only two of the six panels cast in bronze in the original front doors. Just inside those doors, up high where most visitors wouldn't notice them, are a pair of sculptures facing each other that would be the pride of most buildings or houses:

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Everywhere you look, there is gold leaf. Real gold, not paint. Nobody knows how many pounds of gold are in there. These support brackets are quite common:

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Here's a few more of the capitol pics that didn't make the cut for the first post. Some of them are telephoto time exposures that required creative bracing, with no tripod available.

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Directly behind me in that last shot, a major bridge that used to carry the main highway from Philadelphia. It ends with an unusual war memorial at the near end. On both sides of the road, there is a square column with information at its base about all major wars in which Pennsylvania citizens have participated. At the top of each one is a highly stylized rendering of an eagle clutching arrows in one talon:

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Their Civil War museum is in this direction, about a mile beyond the bridge.
I can only imagine what the inside of that rotunda could cost today.what you have just shown is why we should explore the U.S. first as there are so many treasures that we do not know about or ever get to see let alone hear about.
 
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