A photograph from the Wilkes-Barre Times LEader, 13 March 1972, of the aftermath of the freight train and coal train collision that occurred at Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Photo Caption: […]
The Pottsville Republican and Herald, 16 August 1926, reported on a Ku Klux Klan gathering held at Ringtown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, that drew people from a wide area of the […]
It is not known whether the Ku Klux Klan would have survived in the Lykens Valley area without the support of major institutions, including religion, government and the schools. This […]
A photograph from the Allentown Morning Call, 13 March 1972, of the aftermath of the freight train and coal train collision that occurred at Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Photo Caption: […]
In 1932, famed parachute jumper, Howard E. Reitenbaugh, was killed at Whander Field, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, when his parachute failed to open properly. Reitenbaugh was well known in the […]
The following news briefs were published in the “Gratz Items” section of a local newspaper for the week of 20 January 1926: The sale of Harry Schlegel was largely attended […]
CHILD FATALLY INJURED IN ACCIDENT FRIDAY Ruth Warfel, two year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Warfel, was fatally injured in an accident near their home in Small Valley […]
Previously on this blog, the following was reported: On 21 November 1926, a major fire ripped through Klan Haven, an orphanage established by the Ku Klux Klan near Paxtang, Dauphin […]