The Destructive Cyclone of 1910 (3)
Part 3 of 3 posts on the Great Cyclone of June, 1910, featuring news articles from local and area newspapers. From the Harrisburg Daily Independent, June 20, 1910: WIND GIVES […]
The Destructive Cyclone of 1910 (1)
Part 1 of 3 posts on the Great Cyclone of June, 1910, featuring news articles from local and area newspapers. From the Elizabethville Echo, June 23, 1910: DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE GREAT […]
Enterline – St. Paul’s Lutheran Church (Bowerman’s), 1824-1994
An undated photograph (recently colorized) of St. Paul’s Union Church, also known as Bowerman’s Church, Enterline, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The following history of Bowerman’s Church appeared in the Souvenir Book […]
Lykens – Hensel’s Store Burglarized, 1906
This story of the overnight robbery of Thomas A. Hensel‘s clothing store at the main square, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, is from the Lykens Standard, December 14, 1906. The story […]
Invalid Civil War Vet Robbed of Pension Money, 1906
HENRY BORDNER ROBBED Henry Bordner, a decrepit veteran of the Civil War, who lived alone in the upper end of Paul’s Valley, was robbed about three weeks ago of $30 […]
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 […]
Halifax – Long’s Church & Cemetery
An undated photograph of Long’s Church and Cemetery, south of Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The cemetery is till there (along Route 147), but the church building is long gone, being […]
Elizabethville – Death of Smallest Man in County, 1900
From the Lykens Register, May 17, 1900: Death of Smallest Man in County William Collier, probably the smallest man in statue [sic] in Dauphin County, measuring a fraction over three […]