Millersburg Ferry Sesquicentennial, 1825-1975
A wooden post card with a “wood cut” image of the Millersburg Ferry on the Susquehanna River, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The card was issued to commemorate the 150th Anniversary […]
Judge Robert E. Woodside – A Reflection on the Ku Klux Klan
A photograph of some examples of Lykens Valley area Ku Klux Klan uniforms. The Klan was very prominent in the valley in the mid-1920s. Judge Robert E. Woodside, who was […]
Myrtle Koppenhaver – Memories of the Great Gratz Fire of 1924
Many descriptions of the Great Gratz Fire of November 4, 1924, have been published – including the accounts of newspapers of the local area and region and summaries of the fire written […]
Hannah [Clark] Seeger – Memories of the Great Gratz Fire of 1924
Many descriptions of the Great Gratz Fire of November 4, 1924, have been published – including the accounts of newspapers of the local area and region and summaries of the fire written […]
Robert E. Woodside – My Life and Town
In 1979, Judge Robert E. Woodside (1904-1998), of Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, one of the most successful natives of the Lykens Valley area, self-published a memoir, My Life and Town, […]
The Italian-on-Italian Murder at Shamokin, 1888
One of the most famous murder trials in the anthracite coal region in the late 1880s and early 1890s, took place at Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in February 1889. On […]
The Great Gratz Fire of 1924
Many descriptions of the Great Gratz Fire of November 4, 1924, have been published – including the accounts of newspapers of the local area and region and summaries of the […]
Who Robbed & Killed Daniel Hummel in 1881?
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 […]