Young Man Dies in Hut Fire Near Woodside, 1928
In the early morning hours of Easter Sunday, 1928, near Woodside Station on the Lykens Valley Railroad, a young man died in a tree hut that he had constructed and […]
The Trolley From Millersburg to Gratz, 1906
In late December 1906, a brief news story appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph about a proposal to build a trolley line from Millersburg to Gratz. The story was picked up […]
Some Fires In Vicinity of Woodside Station
Firefighters work to contain and extinguish a mountainside fire on the north side of Berries Mountain, near Woodside Station in 1935. This fire was one of many that occurred in […]
Elizabeth [Bowman] Lyter (1814-1906) – First Woman of Enders
MRS. JOSEPH P. LYTER – FIRST WOMAN RESIDENT OF ENDERS, PASSES AWAY Mrs. Elizabeth Lyter, of whose illness mention was made by our Enders correspondent last week, has since passed […]
Railroad Memories of Woodside Station
Some stories about coal train derailments and Woodside Station, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and how the mail was delayed and passengers inconvenienced. Also stories about an engineer who […]
The Water Bucket Murder, 1935
A newspaper photo from the Harrisburg Evening News, August 29, 1935, showing the arrest of John Doney by Millersburg Police Chief R. W. Stakley for the murder of Doney’s long-time-friend Michael Barnhart over the right to draw a bucket of […]
Attempted Train Wreck Near Woodside Station, 1928
A quick-reacting engineer brought a morning passenger train to a halt on April 1928 near Woodside Station on the Lykens Valley Railroad, just barely averting the derailment of the locomotive […]
Millersburg – Early Aviation at Robinson Field (2)
A photograph said to have been taken on Easter Sunday (year not identified) at Robinson Field, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from a scrapbook in which the following […]