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Learning Activity 8-B-1: Local History Project
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Learning Activity 3-D-2: Local Documents, Data, and Cartoons
http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/dauphin/history/local/peter-allen.txt - Information on the Peter Allen House.

http://books.google.com/books?id=8sowAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions - This site shows the history of Dauphin County. As I delve deeper into the originals I am hopeful to find information on the small town of Dauphin.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~padmphs/index.htm - This site is the Dauphin Middle Paxton Historical Society. It has great information on Dauphin, PA. It is open the second Sunday of every month from 1-4. I'll be visiting in April!

http://www.hmdb.org/about.asp - This is a great site that was posted on the Wiki from last week. I am able to search for counties. Dauphin county came up and talked about extensions.

http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/USA/PA/Dauphin/ - This site shows genealogy. I should be able to trace the roots of ancestors in Dauphin.

http://home.comcast.net/~StAnthonyWilderness/picpage.htm - I came across this page looking for the effects of Agnes in Dauphin. I learned even more about Dauphin.

[] - Cartoon about fishing which is very very popular in Dauphin due to the proximatey of two excellent trout streams as well as the Susquehanna River.

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==Learning Activity 4-D-1: Local Photos and Posters==

[] - This shows a picture of the Statue of Liberty in Dauphin County, PA.

[] - This is a photo of the dam on Stoney Creek in Dauphin, PA.

[] - Photo of the oldest house in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Located just outside the borough of Dauphin, PA. Now a popular wedding destination.

Above - A local "polical" poster raising support for the fight against a land swap between the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Pennsylvania National Guard. Locals in and around Dauphin, PA are fighting to keep the local game lands as game lands. It is a popular destination for hikers, bike riders, bird watchers, anglers, hunters, etc.

[] - photo from the most recent flooding of Dauphin, PA after hurricane Irene.

==Learning Activity 5-D-1: Local Audio and Music==

[] - An old folk song about working on the Erie Canal. The Borough of Dauphin was once mostly inhabited by laborers working on the Pennsylvania Canal.

[] - Sheet music for "I've been working on the Railroad". Once the railroad industry over took the canals as the primary means of transporting goods, most of the canal laborers took jobs with the railroad.

[] - Song about the Susquehanna River. The river that the Borough of Dauphin sits along.

[] - "Battle of the Kegs" sheet music. One of the original inhabitants of the Borough of Dauphin was Colonel Timothy Green who was a soldier in the revolutionary war. This popular revolutionary war song is a great tie in to the period when the Borough was in it's infancy.

[] - Johnny Cash "Five Feet High and Rising". A flood song that can be related to the numerous floods that have impacted the borough of Dauphin of the years. Particularly in 1972 after Hurricane Agnes.

==Learning Activity 6-D-1: Local Video and Maps==

[] - A topographical map of Game Lands 211 which is a poplular hunting, fishing, biking and recreational area near the Borough of Dauphin.

[] - A USGS map of the Borough of Dauhin and the surrounding areas.

[] - A 19th century map of Pennsylvania that shows railroads and canal routes of the time.

[] - News video on the Statue of Liberty that has been a landmark in the Susquehanna river near Dauphin Borough.

[] - Tranquil photos of Stoney Creek, a popular creek for trout fishing that flows into the Susquehanna river in the Borough of Dauphin.

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