A undated picture post card view of Grand Avenue, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Note the trolley tracks down the center of the street. __________________________________ From: Lykens-Williams Valley History-Directory and […]
The above cut from a Reading Railroad Company schedule from 1934, shows the station stops on the Williams Valley Branch, the distance in miles between each station, and the time […]
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 […]
Note: See correction in comments below post. A photo from a 1990 newspaper clipping showing the old trolley line on Market Street, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The view is looking […]
The following story appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot, 3 July 1913: LIGHTNING KILLS TOWER CITY GIRL IN HER HOME Father Stunned by Same Bolt Unable to Go To Her CHURCH […]
Isaac Mossop & Company With a reputation as solidly founded as the mines, the town’s big industry is Isaac Mossop & Company’s hosiery mills. Employment is furnished one hundred. The […]
A picture of the local baseball diamond in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This was the first field constructed primarily for baseball and was a result of the formation of the […]
Jacob Messner, hotel keeper, Loyalton, Pennsylvania, was born in Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, 22 March 1861, the son of Philip Messner and Anna Mary [Dockey] Messner. The father, […]