On 21 November 1926, a major fire ripped through Klan Haven, an orphanage established by the Ku Klux Klan near Paxtang, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Forty-six children were led to safety […]
An undated generic post card stating “Greetings from Pinegrove Pennsylvania,” Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. ________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
A 1907 real photo post card view of the Pick Building, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, decorated for the Millersburg Centennial. Note the Centennial Arches, and the designation on the third […]
Lenore Felicia [Schwalm] Otto Stutzman died in 1925. Her obituary, which appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, told of many achievements in her life, […]
A 1961 photograph of the history club of the Upper Dauphin Area High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Members and advisors identified in the photo: Front Row: Mr. Gordon Foster, […]
The story of the suicide of Agnes Minerva Zerfing of near Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania,was reported in local and area newspapers. Some of those stories follow here. From the Pottsville […]
From West Schuylkill Herald, 28 December 1923, came the first open evidence of the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan at Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania: KU KLUX KLAN BURNS […]
Previously on this blog, the death and funeral of Simon Nelson was described: Simon Peter Nelson was born on 23 October 1878, in Orwin, Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, the […]