Lykens Fire Destroys Three Businesses, 1970
A newspaper photograph showing of the some of the damage caused by a fire that raged though three Lykens businesses on Sunday night, February 15, 1970. The caption for the […]
Excerpts from “The Independent Monthly,” 1879
A letter from Thomas J. Hoffman, of Enders, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and printed in the Elizabethville Echo of June 17, 1943, provided a glimpse of an old issue of The Independent Monthly, published on […]
Berrysburg – Joseph F. Romberger Store
Both sides of an undated advertising card for the Joseph F. Romberger Store in Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. On the front side of the card is a drawing of women […]
The Great Lykens Fire of 1912
Reports from two newspapers on the fire that destroyed a portion of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in November, 1912. ______________________________________________ From the Harrisburg Daily Independent, November 13, 1912: LYKENS VISITED […]
Williamstown – Keiter’s Drug Store
An undated photograph of Keiter’s Drug Store at 101 West Market Street (or 106 West Market Street), Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The following history of the business was presented in […]
History of the Williams Valley Railroad to 1907
The following articled appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald, November 3, 1967, as a reprint of an article that originally appeared in the same paper, April 19, 1907. THE HISTORY […]
Herndon – Moyer’s Hotel & Restaurant
An undated photograph of Moyer’s Hotel and Restaurant, Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. This building was located at the tracks where the railroad bridge crossed the Susquehanna River. ________________________________ Corrections and […]
Williamstown – Umholtz Grocery, 1976
A 1976 photograph of the Umholtz Grocery Store, 338 Market Street, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The store is located in the old Seybert Church building. The following history of the […]