Robert L. “Whitey” Koppenhaver, son of Homer Gilbert Koppenhaver and Fronie F. [Shadle] Kopenhaver, of Hegins, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was a minor league baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals […]
REV. OLIVER F. SCHAEFFER Rev. Oliver F. Schaeffer, age 85 years, a former pastor of the Hegins Reformed Chuch, died at his home in Berwick Sunday morning. He had been […]
An 1892 portrait of the Emanuel Dietrich family taken on the occasion of the 40th Wedding Anniversary of Emanuel Dietrich (1829-1895) and his second wife, Ellen Jane [Adams] Dietrich (1835-1929). […]
An undated topographical map of Hegins Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, produced by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. The communities of Hegins, Valley View, and Fountain are part of […]
By mid-October 1911 construction of the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad was supposed to be completed to Gratz in time for the Gratz Fair. Construction began in earnest in the area around […]
On 29 July 1910, the Harrisburg Telegraph announced the awarding of contracts for the construction of the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad along with expectations as to when the work would begin: […]
In 1952, the Dormar Manufacturing Company, operators of the Gratz Shirt Factory, sustained a major loss when a relatively new building was destroyed by fire. The fire was reported in […]
Some stories found in local and area newspapers describe the ongoing efforts in 1910 to complete the surveying of the land over which the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad would be built. […]