The Halifax Schools
A 215-page-book, A Dream Fulfilled: Boyer Memorial School and a History of Other Halifax Schools Throughout the Centuries, 1794 Forward, by Pearl Bretz Hane, was published in 2014 by the […]
Halifax – Boyer Memorial High School, 1944
A photograph of the Boyer Memorial High School, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, as it appeared in 1944. _________________________________ Photo from 1944 Boyer Memorial High School yearbook, The Boyeran, available on […]
Halifax – Boyer Memorial High School Band, 1944
A 1944 photograph of the band of the Boyer Memorial High School, a.k.a. Halifax High School, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The band was described as follows: The Halifax High School […]
Halifax Bank Robbery & Halifax Banking History
A 213-page-book, Halifax Bank Robbery, March 14, 1901 and Halifax Banking History, 1871-2017, by Pearl Bretz Hane, was published in 2017 by the Halifax Area Historical Society, P.O. Box 562, […]
Clyde J. Miller (1904-1947) – Killed in Shiro Mine
Loyalton Man Killed in Coal Rush, To Be Buried Today Clyde J. Miller, 42, a resident of Loyalton for 25 tears, met death by suffocation when he was covered by […]
Yearbook Dedication to William Harris Boyer, 1944
A portrait of William Harris Boyer that appeared in the 1944 Yearbook of the Boyer Memorial High School, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, along with the following dedication: Published by the […]
Halifax Shoe Companies
A 98-page-book, Adam H. Prenzel and Family, Master Inventor, and a History of the Halifax Shoe Companies, by Pearl Bretz Hane, was published in 2017 by the Halifax Area Historical […]
Eighth Census of the United States, 1860
In 1860, the United States conducted the Eighth Census. The total population of the country was determined to be 31, 443, 321, which represented a 35.4% increase over the Census […]