Some Fires In Vicinity of Woodside Station
Firefighters work to contain and extinguish a mountainside fire on the north side of Berries Mountain, near Woodside Station in 1935. This fire was one of many that occurred in […]
Attempted Train Wreck Near Woodside Station, 1928
A quick-reacting engineer brought a morning passenger train to a halt on April 1928 near Woodside Station on the Lykens Valley Railroad, just barely averting the derailment of the locomotive […]
Halifax Man Hanged for Murder of Brother-in-Law in 1900
On the night of January 16, 1900, Elmer E. Barner shot and killed his brother-in-law, Isaac J. Miller, at Miller’s home near Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Barner had claimed that […]
A Murder-Suicide in Carsonville, 1931
The following murder-suicide story appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, September 3, 1931: CARSONVILLE MAN SHOOTS GIRL THEN COMMITS SUICIDE, SATURDAY Motivated by jealousy and the fact that his sweetheart had […]
Fisherville Man in Hunting Party Accidentally Kills Another, 1925 – Murder Trial, 1926
On December 10, 1925, a group of men from the Elizabethville and Halifax areas, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, set out to hunt deer on Berry’s Mountain. At one point, three shots […]
Lykens to Fisherville via Halifax Post Office, 1907
A penny post card mailed from Lykens Post Office, January 22, 1907, at 1 p. m., to Mr. G. W. D. Enders, Fisherville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The card was received […]
Anna Margaret [Kinder] Beidenmiller Dressel (1828-1902)
MRS. IGNATZ DERSSEL Mrs. Ignatz Dressel of North Second Street, died on Sunday of heart trouble and old age, after an illness of about four weeks, aged 74 years and […]
Fisherville – Messiah Lutheran Church History, 1848-1994
MESSIAH LUITHERAN CHURCH The German Reformed and Lutheran Church of Fisherville, Pennsylvania, was organized in 1848 A. D. on land donated by George Fisher, Esquire. Shortly afterwards, the sum of […]