On December 9, 1905, the Board of Education of Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, voted to admit students to school whether or not they could produce a certificate of vaccination. […]
A portion of a map made during the Civil War by Confederate Mapmaker Jedediah Hotchkiss. The map was drawn from notes Hotchkiss made while serving as a teacher in the […]
Today’s blog post looks at news items from the Elizabethville Echo that described community efforts to educate and raise funds for relief for the tens of thousands of orphans of […]
A 1938 portrait photograph of Mary E. Miller of Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from The Obiter, the 1938 yearbook of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Columbia […]
Thomas Henry Ransom was born as a slave in Winchester, Virginia, January 22, 1855, to Thomas Ransom and Margaret Ransom, maiden name unknown. He first appeared in official Lykens Valley […]
A set of four photographs of grading for the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad, which began 1908 and 1909. The railroad was planned to run from Millersburg in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to […]
An 1896 group photograph of the Confirmation Class of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Berrysburg, Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo was taken by M. M. Bernard‘s Studio of Lykens […]
A 1955 advertisement for M. L. Lesher “Abattoir” [Slaughterhouse], Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Wholesale and Retail Quality Meats Phone – Elizabethville __________________________________ From Program for the Gratz Sesquicentennial, 1805-1955. Corrections […]