After the Trial of the Jackson Township Anti-Vax “Conspirators”
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, Commissioner of Health for Pennsylvania, took the results of the March 1906 trial as a victory for compulsory vaccination even though the court had ruled that […]
The Dietrich Family in the Lykens Valley Area
An undated photograph of St. Paul’s Church, Dietrich, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ According to information published in Our Dietrich Lines (2007), a published work on the Dietrich family, there are […]
Local Reminiscences for Home Historians – January 26, 1905
Sixth in a series of nine 1904-1905 newspaper articles in which two old-timers are portrayed reminiscing about the Lykens Valley of the past. The two fictional characters, the “old railroader” […]
Magdalena [Fawber] Hoffner (1822-1909)
Mrs. Magdalena Hoffner, nee Fawber, died at her home near the Mountain House [Jackson Township], on Wednesday, June 23rd [1909] after an illness of several years. Her age was 86 […]
Wayne Township & Western Jackson Township – Topographical Map
An undated topographical map of Wayne Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and the western part of Jackson Township, Dauphin County produced by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. The communities […]
The Crime Wave of 1900 and the Killing of “Shorty Jones”
In September 1900, Elizabethville and area was besieged with the worst wave of crime and terror it had experienced to date in its history. The Borough Council took the matter […]