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 […]
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 […]
GRATZ HAS BIG FIRE EARLY TUESDAY MORNING NO FIRE FIGHTING APPARATUS, FIVE TOWNS SENT HELP The whole town of Gratz, six hundred population was threatened by a fire on Tuesday […]
A snapshot photograph of the Thomas Kerstetter family, who in 1924 were living at the Union House Hotel on the southwest corner of Market and Center Streets, Gratz, Dauphin County, […]
The story that appeared in the Elizabethville Echo of November 6, 1924 describing the Great Gratz Fire, differed only in the fact that it speculated as to how the fire […]
In the early morning hours of 3 November 1924, a disastrous fire swept through the center of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The perfect storm of the failure of the borough […]
In the early morning hours of 3 November 1924, a disastrous fire swept through the center of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The perfect storm of the failure of the borough […]
A huge fire in the early morning of 3 November 1924, destroyed much of the commercial center of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This photo essay shows before and after pictures […]
In 1955 for the Gratz Sesqucentennial, Clayton H. Willier, a local historian and a member of the souvenir book committee, penned a history of the Great Gratz Fire of 1924. […]