A Black-Face Play in Washington Township, 1926
The Elizabethville Echo of January 26, 1926, reported the following about a black-face play that was to be presented by the teacher and pupils of the Holtzman School, a one-room […]
Klingerstown Apartment House Fire, 1940
A photograph taken on July 22, 1940, of the Klingerstown Apartment House Fire, Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. An early owner of this building was Wilmer Deibert. Boyer’s Hardware Store can […]
Lincoln’s Funeral Train at Harrisburg, 1865 (2)
A photograph taken in April 1865 of Abraham Lincoln‘s funeral train at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. _______________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as […]
Pottsville G.A.R. Post Opposes Lee Monument at Gettysburg, 1903
In his June 13, 2020, blog post on Wynning History, Jake Wynn takes on the topic of how Union Civil War veterans saw the erection of monuments to men of […]
Pillow – Post Card Display
An undated post card view said to be of a post card (or photo) display outside a store in Pillow, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The worker with the wheelbarrow is not […]
A Political Cartoon Mocking Gen. Gideon Pillow
A political cartoon from 1848 mocking the “self-inflating” Gen. Gideon Pillow, the inept Confederate general and slaveowner after whom the borough of Pillow, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was named. The cartoon […]
Lies Across America: What Our Historical Sites Get Wrong
This book review was first posted on the Civil War Blog on January 16, 2014, under the title, “Ten Questions to Ask at Historical Sites.” It is particularly appropriate today […]
Pillow Pennsylvania Named for Inept Confederate General
Pillow, the northernmost borough in Dauphin County, was incorporated in 1864 as “Uniontown.” Prior to this, the original town, Schneidershtettle [Snydertown], was named after John Snyder, a land developer, but […]