William H. “Bill” Byerly – Baseball Star & World War II Veteran
William H. “Bill” Byerly was a widely-known, highly-talented baseball player in the Lykens Valley area in the decade of the 1930s and into the early 1940s. In 1932, he was […]
Berrysburg – Generic Post Card
An undated generic post card view for Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Haying in Berrysburg, Pennsylvania ________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
Jackson Township’s Anti-Vaccination Protest, 1905-1906
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. […]
Jedediah Hotchkiss, Confederate Mapmaker, and Lykens Valley School Teacher (2)
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 […]
Near East Relief and the Lykens Valley Area
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 […]
Mary E. Miller of Berrysburg, 1938
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 H. Ransom – Barber of Millersburg
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 […]
Grading for the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad, 1909
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 […]