An undated portrait photograph of Emma Sybilla Hassinger, originally of Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Jacob Schmeltz Hassinger (1836-1913) and Lydia Ann [Gipple] Hassinger (1841-1904), born 29 November […]
The 35th Anniversary Edition of the Amish History of Dauphin County Pennsylvania, 1978-2013, was published in 2013 by Elam Lapp of Millersburg, Pennsylvania. From the book: “In 1975, a corporate […]
An undated photograph taken near the end of the 19th century of the Beisel family, Lykens Valley, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The father, Adam Franklin Beisel, does not appear in the […]
A 1976 birds-eye view of the Lykens Valley, from Berry Mountain, with the town of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the foreground. Mifflin Township and the Mahantongo Mountain are in […]
Susanna [Row] Keiper, who was born 1 February 1852 in Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was interviewed by the Millersburg Sentinel, in early January 1933, for an article that appeared […]
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 […]
News of the year 1920 of the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad is presented here as reported in area newspapers. For all previous articles on this doomed project, see: Midland Pennsylvania Railroad. […]
News of the year 1916 of the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad is presented here as reported in area newspapers. For all previous articles on this doomed project, see: Midland Pennsylvania Railroad. […]