Paul Ivan Updegrove of Muir, 1930
A 1930 portrait photograph of Paul Ivan Updegrove, Muir, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from The Serpentine, the 1930 yearbook of the West Chester State Teachers College, West Chester, […]
Harry Neyer of Muir
An undated baby photo of Harry Neyer, a native of Muir, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, but in 1974 was living in Utah. SCHUYLKILL MEMORY LANE QUIZ Clue: A native of Muir, […]
Blizzard of January 1936 – Digging Out
At the end of January 1936 a crippling blizzard hit the Lykens Valley area particularly hard. The Elizabethville Echo of 23 January 1936, in a front page article, described the […]
Donkey Ball in the Lykens Valley – Animal Cruelty or Hilarious Fun? (1)
A small collection of newspaper articles from the West Schuylkill Herald, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, announcing and describing Donkey Ball events in the greater Lykens Valley area. For all […]
Porter Township – Topographical Map
An undated topographical map of Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, produced by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. The communities of Tower City, Sheridan, Reinerton, Orwin, Muir, Williams Valley […]
A 1929 Proposal to Replace Train Service with Bus Service
On 3 October 1929, the Elizabethville Echo reported on a scheduled hearing to determine whether a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad would be allowed to operate busses between Lykens and […]