About the Creator...
Rachel Dougherty is a junior History major with dual minors in Studio Art and Art History at Messiah University. She has a passion learning, sharing, and interpreting the past through the visual. She has interned at LancasterHistory as a Museum Education intern and now holds the role of Smith Scholar Intern to Dr. David Pettegrew of Messiah's History, Politics, and International Relations Department.
The research for this website was done through archival primary research at the Pennsylvania State Archives and the Historical Society of Dauphin County Archives, Newspapers.com, and additional secondary research. This project was completed in conjunction with the Digital Harrisburg Initiative and Messiah University's 2022 Digital History course.
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