In 1925, five men were arrested for breaking lights along highways in Williams Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The story of their arrest and conviction appeared in the Lykens Standard, March […]
Again the bowels of the earth have taken toll, and on Wednesday about noon, George Dreibelbis, 20 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dreibelbis of Wiconisco, was crushed […]
A newspaper photograph (Lykens Standard, March 14, 1924) of Jonathan Baddorf (1848-1939) and Leah Jane [Row] Baddorf (1852-1939) at their 50th Wedding Anniversary. The photograph was accompanied by a brief […]
An undated photograph of the Fisher Hotel, a stage stop in Dayton, east of Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ____________________________________________ Image from the Facebook page of the Williamstown Historical Society. Follow and receive regular […]
In what was probably the biggest Ku Klux Klan demonstration up to this time in the Lykens Valley area, hundreds of hooded members of that order took charge of the […]
From the Lykens Standard, May 15, 1936: GUN ENDS LIFE OF YOUNG MOTHER According to Deputy Coroner George W. Wren, of Williamstown, Mrs. Goldie Marie Myers, residing for the past […]
This post is part of a series of articles on the explosion that occurred at Bear Valley, No. 1 Shaft, Summit Branch Colliery, near Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, July 15, […]
This post is part of a series of articles on the explosion that occurred at Bear Valley, No. 1 Shaft, Summit Branch Colliery, near Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, July 15, […]