The LOST fountains of Harrisburg
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Part two of this series searching for the lost fountains of Harrisburg Pennsylvania.
The Eby Fountain and Donato's Dance of Eternal Spring that he originally created for Milton Hershey. See below timeline:
Harrisburg Playlist:
• Harrisburg History
Water Fountains
1875: 6/2/75 Amanda S. Snyder born to 10/29/1972 (aka Madeline Stokes, Amanda Straw)
1892: Pharmacist George C. Potts opens drug store at 1101 North Third St, opposite the site of the present store where Potts pioneered in the erection of Harrisburg's first apartment house." (Evening News 1948). One of Potts bottles was found inside Eby fountain during removal with a note inside.
1893 to 1896: Maurice C. Eby Mayor of Harrisburg.
1893: Straw, 18, becomes a nude model.
1895: 11/23 - Eby Fountain at 3rd and Maclay St was erected by Fannie Eby as a memorial to her father Jacob Rupley Eby (native of Columbia, Lancaster - Father of Maurice). What was then the Northern boundary of Harrisburg (Evening News 1948).
1908: 6/22 - Mulberry and Derry St. Presented by Maurice C. Eby for the Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
1909: Fountains at 3rd and Maclay and Market Square
1909: Milton Hershey commissions Italian Sculptor Giuseppe Donato .
To create a fountain for the grounds of Hershey's estate. $2k down payment.
Donato used Amanda Straw as the model.
Hershey refuses fountain and Donato sues for $30k. Wins $23k.
1914: April 4th Maurice C. Eby died.
1914: Straw retired from modeling and married artist Albert Snyder.
1915: Nov 1st Harrisburg Daily Independent article - Miss Fanny M. Eby will present one to be placed in the water works plaza (next spring). Miss Fanny M. Eby presented to the city a fountain located at Third and Maclay streets several years ago. It has been in constant use.
1916: Oct 27 - Childrens Eby Memorial Fountain to be presented to the city next month.
1920: Statue placed at Reservoir Park Harrisburg.
Straw visits fountain with friend and asked Straw if she could ever imagine posing nude. Straw said that she could not.
1922: May 30th article - Fountains:
One in front of the court house (which had two or three predecessors)
Lamberton Fountain
The Eby fountain at Third and Maclay.
The Royal fountain at Eighteenth and Walnut.
The "Humane" fountain at Derry and Mulberry.
Two fountains in Capitol Park that are more patronized by birds than humans.
1922: 7/13 - Police seeking robber who shoots victim. Victim was walking near the State St Bridge. Made his escape in the direction of Sunshine Park. Wounded man walked to Third and Walnut St and after telling his story to Patrolman William H. Gates, collapsed. (Telegraph 7/13/22).
1927: May 4th - Replace drinking fountain for animals at 3rd and Maclay destroyed by winter.
1930: Sunshine park vehicle accident "Herr Street Hill."
1935: 5/18 - Article showing wading pool near Herr St. (The Evening News)
1936: Feb 22nd 2022 Newspaper article indicated that the North St fountain was moved north of the pumping station after the 1936 flood.
1938: Dance of Eternal Youth moved to Municipal Rose Garden along N 3rd St. Dedicated on 9/15/38
1939: Straw moved back to Fishing Creek Valley after husbands death.
1948: 6/18 - Eby Fountain at 3rd and Maclay moved to Sunshine Park (12th and Forester St).
1952: Straw moved into Harrisburg Homeland Center.
1971: July Dance fountain moved to Italian Lake.
1972: 10/29 - Straw died
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Thank you for doing past stories in Harrisburg and surrounding areas! I live in Chambersburg, an hour away from Harrisburg. Civil war country!❤
@@CherylPerry-st7xo definitely a lot of history in Chambersburg I need to get to eventually. Welcome to the channel!
I love your channel! Grew up in south central PA and it is so fascinating to learn all these beautiful things!
Thank you! Great to see others as fascinated with hidden history as I am.
Wow! Great work! Loved the Amanda Straw story. So cool that she was from Fishing Creek and remained in touch with the legacy of her art throughout the years.
The columns at Reservoir Park were salvaged from the old Dauphin County Courthouse.
Oh wow nice! That is pretty cool.
There is a fountain in a secluded hollow at the old state hospital grounds as well. There is a set of stairs across from the admin building. Go all the way to the bottom of the stairs and path then turn right and walk up the hollow to the fountain.
I recently did the video below in that area that I think you are talking about. I don't remember seeing a fountain. I will have to check it out.
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Very interesting! So many stories and history in everything around us. Thanks for keeping it alive.
I love old history of our towns!
This was very well done!
Thanks Scott!
I live in Harrisburg. What a shame this city is. Such beautiful old buildings and architecture. Every park is a hood. Homeless at sunshine park, Reservoir park is sketchy. You should go to the little secret cemetery at Boyd big tree preserve on Fishing creek valley rd. It's got revolutionary war veterans and I believe the Straw family cemetery. Makes sense since you say she was born in Fishing creek.
Great video, love local history. I'm a New Yorker,not even from here. But tend to find the historical wherever I go. I also do a little metal detecting, which makes me have to dive into the history of an area so I can physically narrow down a potential search area
Thank you. Yes, good catch on the Straw cemetery. I meant to visit for this video but ran out of time. I might eventually do a video specifically about Amanda Straw. The farm she grew up on, all her work, etc.
@runningintohistory I thought I remembered that name on a few of the headstones. Unfortunately, the park is working on that cemetery and in cleaning it up,and renovating the grounds, they have actually exposed it alot more,making it way more visible and accessible. Upkeep was/is good,of course, but it's hidden overgrown nature was part of it's charm and character,and kept alot of people away from it. Hope they don't put a big sign up,or something obnoxious. Great job on this story.
@@Chripiter thank you.
I love this. Always cool to find a fountain. ❤
I agree!
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. 😊
Amazing history untold!! I live on 6th and Maclay in these apartments..I never knew about this History right down the street... Great Vlog
Thank you! So much history in that area.
I thought that fountain looked like the one in Italian Lake. And it was! I never knew it had so much history. 😀 wonderful investigation here. So sad these nice parks didn't hold its original beauty.
@@CharChar876 haha yeah I saw it there before too but never realized it was that infamous. Thank you!
Great video!! Very interesting!!
Thanks Dave!
Thank You! great information.
@@suewarner1781 thanks for watching!
I was born at Polyclinc!
One must be from here to have any love for HBG in the first place. As an outsider, I've lived here for almost three years. Had to move out of downtown, complete wasteland - there were three dead bodies in the time we lived downtown, very near us. TOO near. So we split, and within a few months there was a gun battle on 2nd street. HBG is one of those "Used to be" kind of towns. Its sad to see what this place WAS and what it is NOW. And the potential is through the roof on what it COULD be but people dont care much here.
Very true unfortunately. I actually created a video discussing what Harrisburg has become since my ancestors first moved there in the 18th century:
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I was born in Polyclinic Hospital in 1956. I don't remember the rose garden. LOL.
My great uncle John B Yetter wrote "Steelton: Stop, Look Listen" so I have always been interested in Harrisburg area history.
My old neighbor in Steelton was a 95 year old woman (Mrs Zimmerman") Her grandfather was David Wills, who owned the "Wills House" in Gettysburg, where Abraham Lincoln stayed before delivering the Gettysburg Address"
Mrs. Zimmerman really took a liking to me when she found out my great uncle was John Yetter. She had the hots for his older brother Gilbert. Gilbert got his Engineering degree from Penn State, and was the chief welding engineer for the Hoover Dam, among other large infrastructure projects throughout the West.
@@garysmith8593 pretty cool!
another great video sir.
@@Pink-biscuit-media thank you!
You ever think of coming down Hanover way?
There's a grave yard at Codorus State that Google won't let me add to maps lol.
Great video of the Burg 🙏
@@xwwg1wgax277 thank you. I would definitely look anywhere there is obscure history. Let me know if you have ideas. I will have to look into the graveyard.
Dennis Green lived in a little apartment there at Derry and Evergreen where that fountain is a planter now.
I actually remember going there with him once.
Great video
Thank you!
Ahhh, yes. Local history... If you want a good one, I highly recommend looking up "The Blue Eyed Six". It's got a little bit of urban legend mixed in with it
That is an interesting story that I touch on briefly in the below video since it occurred during the same time of this event in Wrightsville. But I definitely need to produce a dedicated video on it. Thank you.
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I got jumped pretty bad at Sunshine Park in the eighties. I actually cringed a little when you said the name.
Yeah definitely a shady area.
Those buildings are likely pre-1900. "1900" is apparently the default for the county when they do not know the actual build date of a building.
@frunyan1265 good point. I meant to note that the first building I showed, (1103 N. 3rd) can be seen on the 1890 Sanborn fire map that I included in the video. The tall building on the corner (1100) doesn't show up until after 1900. Still, I don't know exactly which building or when Potts "pioneered the first apartment building." Maybe some research for a later video.
It's crazy how much is lost through the years
@@taradattisman9489 definitely is unfortunate how much has been lost and forgotten. One of my motivations for creating this channel.
@runningintohistory I do appreciate all you do for this channel. Always interesting. I live in York county and Always drive by places wandering about the history. But Google doesn't Always know and I'm always so busy i just forget ☺️
Thank you! I'm a York Countian too but I grew up in the Harrisburg area. York and Harrisburg both have some fascinating history.
So whats a worse neighborhood...off Cameron and MaClay or up on the Hill
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Haha what do you know about that?