Today, this young lad, a direct descendant of five generations of residents of Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, is celebrating his 80th birthday. _____________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should […]
A colorized view of a real-photo post card portrait photograph of four generations of the Hannah [Rickert] Riegle (1847-1919) family of Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Seated are Hannah […]
An undated membership pin for the Diamond Jubilee Post No. 2385, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Gratz, Dauphin County Pennsylvania. Since the late 1970s, the headquarters of this organization has been […]
A short news item appeared in the Lykens Register of October 31, 1873, noting the following: The old frame schoolhouse near Buffington’s mill in Lykens Township, has been supplanted by […]
A story of an old gristmill in the Lykens Valley appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot on April 10, 1981. The story featured a photograph of Charles A. Sitlinger, retired dairyman […]
A July 2021 photographic essay by Ethan Evitts of the last days of the William Evitts (1854-1928) and Sarah A. [Daniel] Evitts (1859-1925) Homestead in Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, […]
The recovery of the bodies of two other miners killed in an independent (bootleg) mining operation near Good Spring, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, took place over several more days. News reports […]
The Pottsville Republican of February 10, 1939, reported on the progress of the recovery of the bodies of three men buried in a mine cave-in at Good Spring, Schuylkill County, […]