The following news article is from the Harrisburg Evening News, April 21, 1926, via Newspapers.com. _______________________________________ FIREMEN FROM FIVE TOWNS HELP FIGHT BIG FIRE AT PILLOW PILLOW, April 21 [1926] […]
In 1929, at the annual rally and picnic for the Lykens-Williams Valley, the program included aviators and parachute jumps, a young lady doing black-face comedy, and an “old fashioned cake […]
A photograph taken around 1887 of the Odd Fellows building in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The building, which was built in 1872, was formally dedicated in June 1873, with elaborate […]
A 1960 portrait photograph of Sidney L. Shuey of Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from the 1960 yearbook, The Spectrum, of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, available […]
PROPOSED COUNTRY CLUB BUILDING A special meeting of members of the Lykens Valley Country Club was held at Hotel Lykens recently. A 50-acre farm situated two miles west of Lykens […]
An undated photograph of the trolley trestle or bridge at Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This trolley line ran from the Lykens Valley Railroad station in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to […]
A brief “official” history of Tower City and Porter Township , Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was produced for the centennial celebration in 1968. Included was a story on the development of […]
Charles M. Coles, editor and publisher of the Lykens Standard, in the September 14, 1917, reprinted an offensive commentary from the Christian Herald which supported negative stereotypes about Filipinos. The […]