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Upper Dauphin High School – Janice Ann Buffington, 1964

A 1964 colorized portrait photograph of Janice Ann Buffington, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1964 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]

January 15, 2024
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Young Man Dies in Hut Fire Near Woodside, 1928

In the early morning hours of Easter Sunday, 1928, near Woodside Station on the Lykens Valley Railroad, a young man died in a tree hut that he had constructed and […]

January 15, 2024
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Millersburg – Queen Emma of the Sandwich Islands, 1866

“A considerable sensation was created in Millersburg by having a live Queen passing through that place. Her Imperial Highness, Emma, Queen Consort of the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii], accompanied by a […]

January 15, 2024
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Wiconisco – First Baptist Church, 1908 (Re-Built)

A colorized version of a 1908 newspaper photo of the First Baptist Church, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The following article appeared in the Lykens Standard, February 14, 1908, on the dedication […]

January 14, 2024
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Spring Glen – 5-Year-Old Boy Kills 3-Year-Old Sister, 1906

A five-year-old boy picked up a loaded gun and somehow was able to discharge it.  In doing so, he killed his three-year-old sister.  The father, Jacob Shade had left the […]

January 14, 2024
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Rev. Johnson R. Groff – Lutheran Pastor of Lykens

Rev. Johnson R. Groff served as pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from 1901-1904. He died on December 30, 1904, and the Lykens Standard published his […]

January 14, 2024
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Rough & Ready Cornet Band, 1906

By Steve E. Troutman The Rough and Ready Cornet Band poses in Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, at the red brick hotel on the square in 1906. The handsome uniformed men […]

January 14, 2024
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Upper Dauphin High School – James Dennis Buffington, 1964

A 1964 colorized portrait photograph of James Dennis Buffington, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1964 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]

January 13, 2024

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