Klingerstown – Leitzel’s Store
An undated advertising thermometer for Leitzel’s Store, Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. ________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
More News Briefs About the Ku Klux Klan, 1924
In 1924, the Ku Klux Klan was just beginning its rise in the Lykens Valley area. Two additional examples have been found of Klan activity, one from Pine Grove, Schuylkill […]
Gratz Post Office, 1907
The message and address side of a penny post card mailed from Gratz Post Office, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1907, 4 A. M. The card was sent via […]
Klingerstown Post Office, 1880s [?]
An envelope or cover mailed from the Klingerstown Post Office, Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1888 [?] to C. Tower, Philadelphia. ________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added […]
Klingerstown – Boyer’s Meats
An undated photograph of the delivery van for Boyer’s Home Dressed Meats, Klingerstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
Were Confederates in Herndon in 1863?
At the side of the old Herndon National Bank building in Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, is an historical marker. The text of the marker reads: Herndon Formerly Trevorton Junction By […]
Jedediah Hotchkiss, Confederate Mapmaker, and Lykens Valley School Teacher (2)
A portion of a map made during the Civil War by Confederate Mapmaker Jedediah Hotchkiss. The map was drawn from notes Hotchkiss made while serving as a teacher in the […]
Lila M. [Snyder] Boyer – Centenarian
Lila M. [Snyder] Boyer Lila Margaret Boyer of Bryan, Texas, age 106, passed away peacefully on 03/18/2021. She was born in Klingerstown, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1915, to Edwin Snyder and […]