K. K. K. Burns Cross at Lykens, 1923
At the height of the Christmas shopping season in 1923, a load blast was heard in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, followed by a large cross burning on the culm bank […]
Coaldale Football Team, 1903
A 1903 photograph of the football team of Coaldale, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It is believed that this is one of the earliest known football teams in Coaldale. Identified in the […]
Coaldale Baseball Team, 1875
A 1903 photograph of the football team of Coaldale, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Coaldale boasted of a popular baseball team in the early days preceding the advent of football in that […]
The 1918 Flu Epidemic in Schuylkill County
A photograph of an emergency hospital set up in a public building to care for persons who had contracted influenza in October 1918. Joseph H. Zerbey, in 1933, reflected on […]
The Great Flood of 1972 – “… and her name was Agnes”
The following is a story by C. L. Peters which appeared in the Lykens Standard, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 13 July 1972: ______________________________________ With a lot of interest we sat […]
Henry Keiser – Reminiscences of Lykens in 1850
On 27 May 1927, the Lykens Standard published a reminiscence of Henry Keiser, Civil War veteran, of 1850 Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ REMINISCENCES Interesting Dates of Lykens 77 Years […]
First Trial of Henry Romberger & Frank Romberger, 1881 (3)
Part 3 of 4. On 28 April 1881, the trial of Henry Romberger and Frank Romberger for the murder of Daniel Troutman began in Dauphin County Court, Harrisburg. Here follows […]
The Polish Row Murders, 1918
A story of two men who were killed in a knife fight on Easter Eve 1918, at Polish Row, a housing area for miners in Wiconisco Township, near Lykens, Dauphin […]