A 1985 advertisement for Pillow General Store and Campground, Pillow, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Grill Open 6:30-2:00 Breakfast and Lunch Specials Daily Groceries – Ice Campground with Shaded Creek Sites Stocked […]
An undated post card view said to be of a post card (or photo) display outside a store in Pillow, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The worker with the wheelbarrow is not […]
A 1977 photograph from an 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 political cartoon from 1848 mocking the “self-inflating” Gen. Gideon Pillow, the inept Confederate general and slaveowner after whom the borough of Pillow, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was named. The cartoon […]
Pillow, the northernmost borough in Dauphin County, was incorporated in 1864 as “Uniontown.” Prior to this, the original town, Schneidershtettle [Snydertown], was named after John Snyder, a land developer, but […]
Rev. JAcob Keim served as minister of Simeon Reformed Church, Gratz, Dauphin County, from 1865 to 1872. ________________________________ Very little is known about Rev. Jacob Keim. During his time in […]
The Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election of 1866 pitted a Union General and war hero, John W. Geary, against a avowed racist and white supremacist, Heister Clymer. Geary headed the Republican or […]
On 20 November 1873, the Harrisburg Telegraph published a directory of School Directors and Teachers in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for the school year 1873-1874: Directory of the Public Schools of […]