Charles Botteiger Arrested for Robbing Mails, 1903
BAGGAGEMASTER ARRESTED Charles Botteiger, baggage master on Day’s train on the Summit Branch road was arrested upon the arrival of the train at Lykens at 12:10 noon Thursday of last […]
Highlights from the “Washington Square Democrat,” 1878 (1)
A column entitled “Quarter Century Back,” as published in the Elizabethville Echo, June 5, 1903, refers to the predecessor of the Echo, published in 1878 at Washington Square by J. […]
Black Residents of Upper Dauphin County, 1880
A portion of the 1880 Federal Census for Gratz Borough, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, showing two families living in the same household. The 1880 Census used two terms to identify Blacks […]
Thomas Kerstetter Family – Almost Killed in Great Gratz Fire of 1924
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, […]
Black Residents of Upper Dauphin County, 1870
A portion of the 1870 Federal Census for Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, showing the household of Malachi Bird, a 30-year old barber. The household included Malachi’s wife and three children […]
Gratz High School – Baseball Division Champs, 1932
Gratz-Porter H. S. Scrap for Base Ball Honors With but one defeat marked against them the Gratz High School baseball team emerged winners of the lower end group of the […]
More News Briefs About the Ku Klux Klan, 1925
In 1925, the Ku Klux Klan was very active in the Lykens Valley area. Additional news briefs have been located about those activities and are given here in this blog […]
Lykens – Moose Theatre Nears Completion, 1922
A newspaper photograph (Lykens Standard, November 17, 1922) of an artist’s rendering of the new Moose Home, then under construction and nearing completion in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The building […]