Daniel Hummel (1817-1881) is buried at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Church records indicate that he died on November 20, 1881, and that his death was […]
An undated family photograph (later colorized) of the William Schoffstall family of Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Identified in the photo: Front Row: Mary Ann [Swanger] Schoffstall (1843-1922), mother; William […]
An undated photograph of a former building on the southwest corner of Main Street & Market Street, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This corner building was purchased by Abraham Shuman and […]
An undated post card view of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Station at North Fourth Street, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The large building at left was the main station, […]
A photograph taken in 1930 of the Snyder Family Band of Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The band was well-known in the entire western section of the county, since they often […]
On September 17, 1907, at the cider mill of Senary Erdman in Erdman, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, a boiler exploded killing Elmer Artz, seriously injuring Samuel Martz, and injuring […]
An undated colorized portrait of Simon Wesley “Simmy” Romberger (1853-1916), bandmaster of Reiner City (Muir), Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The following brief biographical sketch of him was found in the Centennial […]
LORRAINE A. STANTON Lorraine A. Stanton, local historian, author, and lifelong resident of Frackville, passed away unexpectedly on January 8, 2019, at the age of 92. She was born on April […]