Links to the nine part series of newspaper articles entitled “Reminiscenes for Home Historians, 1905-1905.” The series was published in the Elizabethville Echo and presented a folksy history of the […]
Charles L. Blockson is a Philadelphia-based researcher, writer, and collector of African American memorabilia. He is a co-founder of the African American Museum in Philadelphia and his personal collection of […]
Simon Peter Nelson was born on 23 October 1878, in Orwin, Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, the son of John Nelson, an immigrant from Germany, and his wife, Rebecca [Heberling] […]
HEGINS FARMER FOUND DEAD OF BULLET WOUND James Monroe Scheib, 45, well known farmer of Hegins Township, was found dead in the garage at his home on Tuesday, a bullet […]
The following news briefs were published in the “Gratz News” section of a local newspaper, 12 August 1943: Mrs. S. O. Smeltz and Miss Hannah Clarke visited relatives in Philadelphia […]
A June 1927 photograph showing damage done to the home of Leo Koppenhaver, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, by the flood. Situations such as this posed problems for those given the […]
A report on the attendance of more than a thousand persons for the first Lykens Valley Ku Klux Klan Field Day appeared in the Lykens Standard in 1926. This post […]
The following news briefs were published in the “Gratz Items” section of a local newspaper for the week of 16 January 1926: Hester Blyler, of Philadelphia, was married to Miss […]