A 1977 advertisement for Troutman’s Oil Service, Pillow, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Petroleum Products For… Home – Farm – Industry Remember – Your comfort is complete with Troutman’s Oil Heat ___________________________________ […]
A 1988 advertisement for the Pillow General Store & Campground, Route 225, Pillow, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Breakfast and Lunch – Specials Daily Groceries – Ice Campground with Shaded Creekside Sites From the 1987 […]
A brief article in the Lykens Standard, December 12, 1924, told the following story: SHERIDAN MAN KILLED AT EAST BROOKSIDE A delayed shot which caused the men in No. 5 […]
A photograph from the early 20th Century showing an operator working at a console at a telephone exchange. The operator manually connected wires to move a call from one wire […]
A fatal railroad accident occurred at the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Market Street grade crossing in October 1929, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania., as reported by the Elizabethville Echo, October 10, 1929: THREE […]
Some brief news items appearing in local and regional newspapers seem to suggest that work had started on building a railroad from Dornsife in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, to Pillow, in […]
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 […]
The dangers of traveling the back roads of the Lykens Valley at night became evident to Frank Wiest, a butcher. He was brutally attacked and robbed in September 1906 near […]