Capital-Star photo by Cassie Miller
On Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Tom Wolf, Auditor General Eugene DePasquale and a slew of state legislators met outside the Capitol to unveil Harrisburg’s newest monument.
Unveiled on the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment and the centennial of the 19th Amendment, the bronze monument depicts four statues of influential Harrisburg residents from the 1800s: William Howard Day, civil rights pioneer; Frances Harper, abolitionist and suffragette; Jacob T. Compton, sergeant in the U.S. Colored Infantry; and T. Morris Chester, Civil War correspondent.
Half an hour before the dedication ceremony, the line to be some of the first to see the monument wrapped around the south end of the Capitol lawn.
Quite the line to see the monument! pic.twitter.com/Ej8PqpYYDZ
— Cassie Miller (@Wordsby_CassieM) August 26, 2020
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- Pittsburgh Rep. Ed Gainey (Capital-Star photo by Cassie Miller).
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- State Sen. Sharif Street (Capital-Star photo by Cassie Miller).
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- Capital-Star photo by Cassie Miller
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- Department of General Services Secretary Curt Topper (Capital-Star photo by Cassie Miller).
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- Gov. Tom Wolf speaks at a dedication event for a new monument on the Capitol lawn (Capital-Star photo by Cassie Miller).
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- (Capital-Star photo by Cassie Miller).
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- At the dedication, members of the community spoke about what the new monument means to them (Capital-Star photo by Cassie Miller).
The plan for the monument was announced in January at an event in the Capitol’s main rotunda.
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