Motel operator charged A 59-year-old businessman, Harry Franklin Mace, operator of the Fountain Blue Motel and Lounge at Williamstown, was bound over for court Thursday at a preliminary hearing before […]
David P. Russell, who was born in Canada in 1871, died on 6 March 1947 in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was widely known in the Lykens Valley as the […]
A photograph of the aftermath of a fatal 1981 fire at 658 E. Main Street, Hegins, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in which 26-year-old Paul L. Klinger lost his life. The fire […]
A 1961 advertisement for the Susquehanna Quarry, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. SUSQUEHANNA QUARRY MILLERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA Crushed Stone and Sand Telephone – OWen 2-2144 ______________________________________ From the 1961 Yearbook of the […]
A 1961 advertisement for the Leon E. Kocher Coal Company, Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Offices also in Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. LEON E. KOCHER COAL COMPANY Telephone OVERBROOK 2-3181 […]
In 1860, the United States conducted the Eighth Census. The total population of the country was determined to be 31, 443, 321, which represented a 35.4% increase over the Census […]
An advertisement for the American Briquet Company, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The ad refers to the company as “MANUFACTURES OF ANTHRACITE BRIQUETS.” American Briquet was making briquets from the material […]
An undated photograph of Blanning’s Corner Store, J. Roy Blanning, proprietor, 100 E. Market Street, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. A brief description of this store was included in the Williamstown […]