The grave of Savilla [Coleman] Hepler and her daughter Mary Martha Hepler can be found at St. Michael’s United Church of Christ Cemetery, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Both were […]
In May 1930, Henry Noel, a miner, came staggering out of the woods near Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, bleeding from the neck. After being taken to the office of a […]
An undated photograph of the Bear Valley General Store, near Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ____________________________________________ For additional information about this photo and others like it, contact the Williamstown Historical Society. Corrections […]
MINER DIES AS RESULT FALL DOWN SLOPE An independent miner who was injured in a 60-foot fall down a slope at Bear Valley mining operation Thursday, September 20 [1962], died […]
LYKENS VALLEY COAL MINES In my late excursion through the country, bordering on the Susquehanna river, I visited Lykens Valley, in Dauphin County, and the coal mines on Bear Creek, […]
At the time of the Porter Tunnel Mine Disaster of March 1977, the Pottsville Republican published an article by Nora Coyne, staff writer, which chronicled the mine disasters that occurred […]
An undated photograph of the Bear Valley Plane. Coal from the mine at Bear Valley was raised on this plane to Hegins Mountain where it was then transported by rail […]