1896 FORT HARRIS full color HARRISBURG Pennsylvania SUSQUEHANNA RIVER Indian

Description

Original 1896 FULL-PAGE, full color plate depicting FORT HARRIS (modern day Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) as it was in 1720! Accompanied by 3 pages of text on the history of JOHN HARRIS and his frontier post, known as HARRIS' FERRY.
inv# 6751
Perfect for framing, this historic 19th-century piece BEGS to be hung with YOUR quality Pennsylvania or F & I collection!
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL 1896
FULL-PAGE, full color plate depicting FORT HARRIS (modern day HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania) as it was in 1720.
Harris built his ferry on the SUSQUEHANNA RIVER and was instrumental for decades as a vital link to the west!
Cora,
at sea in the Caribbean
off the Venezuelan coast near
Maracaibo, was the first to notice
the beginnings of the hurricane
(Redfield, 1846). From there, the
storm traveled northwestward and
strengthened as it progressed. It
passed
south
of
Jamaica,
where
the
resulting sea swell caused problems
along the eastern end of the island
(Schomburgk, 1848). The hurricane
maintained its course, and it soon
reached the Cayman Islands, where
it was quite strong. At those small
islands, the hurricane generated
a surge of fifteen feet or more,
which sent water coursing across
the entirety of Grand Cayman at
the communities of Savannah and
Newlands (Piddington, 1848).
By the 10
th
of October the
hurricane was at Cuba, striking
somewhere on the southwestern
shore; by evening, Havana was
feeling its effects. As the storm
raged across the city and through
the night, ships were dashed to
pieces, buildings fell,
and scores of
people died. Over 150
vessels were
lost in Havana Harbor, destroyed by
waves so large they sent water as
high as the lanterns of the lighthouse
of the Moro Castle. By 11 A.M. on
October 11
th
, the hurricane’s fury
had passed, but the devastation
left in its wake was extreme. “In
the city and environs, the injury to
the buildings, trees, &c., has been
immense and many lives have been
lost,” wrote a reporter from Havana
(Anonymous, 1846 c). Of 104
ocean-going vessels in the Havana
Harbor, only 12 were without
significant injury. Nearly 50 local
coasting vessels were destroyed.
On the 5
th
of October, 1846, the
barque
the Caribbean
off the Venezuelan coast near
Maracaibo, was the first to notice
the beginnings of the hurricane
(Redfield, 1846). From there, the
storm traveled northwestward and
strengthened as it progressed. It
passed
south
of
Jamaica,
where
the
resulting sea swell caused problems
along the eastern end of the island
(Schomburgk, 1848). The hurricane
maintained its course, and it soon
reached the Cayman Islands, where
it was quite strong. At those small
islands, the hurricane generated
a surge of fifteen feet or more,
which sent water coursing across
the entirety of Grand Cayman at
the communities of Savannah and
Newlands (Piddington, 1848).
By the 10
th
of October the
hurricane was at Cuba, striking
somewhere on the southwestern
shore; by evening, Havana was
feeling its effects. As the storm
raged across the city and through
the night, ships were dashed to
pieces, buildings fell,
and scores of
people died. Over 150
vessels were
lost in Havana Harbor, destroyed by
waves so large they sent water as
high as the lanterns of the lighthouse
of the Moro Castle. By 11 A.M. on
October 11
th
, the hurricane’s fury
had passed, but the devastation
left in its wake was extreme. “In
the city and environs, the injury to
the buildings, trees, &c., has been
immense and many lives have been
lost,” wrote a reporter from Havana
(Anonymous, 1846 c). Of 104
ocean-going vessels in the Havana
Harbor, only 12 were without
significant injury. Nearly 50 local
coasting vessels were destroyed.
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