An undated photo of the Old Brookside Colliery Breaker at Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Railroad cars are waiting to be loaded with coal at the breaker. ____________________________ Corrections and […]
LYKENS POLICE CHIEF STRUCK BY CAR; DIES TUESDAY Harry McCall, age 32 years, Lykens Chief of Police, was fatally injured when hit by an automobile at Grand Avenue and Fifth […]
EMANUEL BIXLER BURIED MONDAY Emanuel Bixler, a life long and respected resident of Hegins Township, died at his late home early last Thursday morning [26 May 1938] from a lingering […]
An undated view of the trolley that traveled from the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The station master’s building is seen […]
The “A. F. Baker” was a locomotive owned by the Williams Valley Railroad, which operated from Brookside in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and passed through Williams Valley Junction, Reinerton, Tower City, […]
A photo of the visit of United Mine Workers President John Mitchell, to the Lykens Valley for a week in September 1905. The group is standing on the steps of […]
This is Part 3 of a multi-part series on a Country Auction that took place in Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 18 June 1977. The auction was for the […]
H. S. Snyder and Company, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. FURNITURE Victrolas and Records Bell Phone 7-14 207 E. Grand Avenue, Tower City, Pennsylvania. _____________________________ An advertisement that appeared in […]