Early Railroads Near Tower City
A colorized photograph of the Williams Valley Railroad station at Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, built after 1892 when a rail line was extended to Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. According […]
Early Colonial History
The first of four pages of the Charter issued to William Penn in 1681 for the Colony of Pennsylvania. The portrait (or cartouche) in the upper left corner is of […]
The Murder of Morris Bender, 1908
The story of the murder of Morris Bender of Orwin, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, as told in the pages of the Lykens Standard, August 21, 1980, August 28, 1908, and September […]
What Happened to These Pen Sketches Made in 1888?
A brief article appearing in the West Schuylkill Herald, July 5, 1967, described a display in the newspaper office window of sketches made in 1888 of Tower City and Porter […]