Lucknow is an unincorporated American community and neighborhood that is located in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County,

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area.

Geography

Lucknow is roughly bounded to the north by Rockville and Blue Ridge Road in upper Susquehanna Township; east to Fargreen Road, west along Linglestown Road straddling the

/Susquehanna Township line, south to Lucknow Road, east to the Harrisburg Intermodal Yard along North Sixth Street and west to Front Street. Linglestown Road passes through the heart of the community.

History

The area was named after

Lucknow Lucknow () is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and the largest city of the List of state and union territory capitals in India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the epon ...

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, India where the

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took place between Indian freedom fighters and the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

army. Lucknow takes the name of "Sepoy" which refers to the Indian foot soldiers who fought on the British side in the

Relief of Lucknow The siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defence of the British The Residency, Lucknow, Residency within the city of Lucknow from rebel sepoys (Indian soldiers in the British East India Company's Army) during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. After ...

. John W. Reily (of soon-to-be prominent Reily family) worked in the iron industry and built and operated the Lucknow Forge for approximately 35 years. The housing stock of rowhouses along Lucknow Road were first built as company homes for those working at the Lucknow Forge. Late in the 19th Century, Reily moved to work on a dairy farm at Fort Hunter and sold the forge to the

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as the site of a rail welding plant next for their expanding rail yard. This new rail yard was known as the Lucknow Yard, though presently remains as the Harrisburg Intermodal Yard. The Pennsylvania Railroad would also operate a passenger station at Lucknow, approximately 4 miles north of Harrisburg.

References

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