Pine Grove – Women Who Prepared Meals for Veterans’ Meeting
An undated photograph of a group of women and men who prepared a supper for the first reunion of Pine Grove Spanish American War veterans, Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. […]
Moon Landing – Front Page of Pottsville Republican, 21 July 1969
The front page of the Pottsville Republican, July 21, 1969. The headlines read: Man in Moon Alone Again; Apollo 11 Off Now in Orbit; Await Collins ____________________________________ Corrections and additional […]
Fisherville – Fire Destroys Shirt Factory & General Store, 1919
The story of the great fire of 1910 at Fisherville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, is told in news articles from Harrisburg, Elizabethville and Lykens newspapers. The fire destroyed a shirt factory […]
The Porter Tunnel Mine Disaster, 1977 (3)
Articles from the West Schuylkill Herald, a weekly newspaper published in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, beginning March 17, 1977 and concluding March 31, 1977. The articles are related to […]
The Porter Tunnel Mine Disaster, 1977 (2)
The front page of the West Schuylkill Herald for March 10, 1977, a weekly newspaper published in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The articles in that paper are related to […]
A Black-Face Play in Tremont, 1917
The West Schuylkill Press and Pine Grove Herald of several dates in late 1917, printed the following advertisement about a black-face play that was to be presented by Mrs. U. […]
The Porter Tunnel Mine Disaster, 1977 (1)
The front page of the West Schuylkill Herald for March 3, 1977, a weekly newspaper published in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The articles in that paper are related to […]
Abraham Lincoln in Dauphin County, 1861
One hundred fifty years ago, on his way from his home in Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, D.C. for his March 4th inauguration, President-elect Abraham Lincoln made a stop in Harrisburg, […]