An undated post card view of the Westwood Colliery, near Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. _____________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
In 1925, a basketball game in Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was started with a bomb exploding on a hill near the town. The explosion was attributed to the Ku Klux […]
The death of Curtin Cleveland McLaughlin on February 10, 1938, brought to an end a garage and auto dealership (McLaughlin Motor Company) located on Market Square, Millersburg, in the brick […]
An undated colorized photograph of the Zion Evangelical Church, northwest corner of Grand Avenue and Fourth Street, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. This brick building was built on the site […]
A colorized photograph of the Williams Valley Railroad station at Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, built after 1892 when a rail line was extended to Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. According […]
This blog post presents “whiskey-related” information from the Henry Keiser Diary. Henry was a Civil War soldier from Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ______________________________________________ The print of a political cartoon shown […]
An undated newspaper photograph of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Station at Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The photo appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald, September 1, 1977, along with the […]
In the early morning hours of September 1972, while he waited watching his garage which had been previously burglarized several times, Charles Fix encountered an intruder, Joseph Hoy. After startling […]