Bertha [Riegle] Sitlinger – Four Generations
A Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania family welcomes a new birth in the early 1940s. The photograph was taken on the front porch of the Riegle-Dietrich homestead. The new […]
A Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania family welcomes a new birth in the early 1940s. The photograph was taken on the front porch of the Riegle-Dietrich homestead. The new […]
A photograph of Isaac C. Troutman (1875-1960) and Mary Margaret [Hoffman] Troutman, of Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, taken on the day of their wedding in 1896. According to family […]
A photograph of Jonathan Zerbe and three of his children, taken after the death of his wife,Julia [Messner], Zerbe. According to the Elizabethville Echo, 8 April 1897, Julia died on […]
The major mining operations that employed large numbers of men were on the other side of Short Mountain from Gratz and Lykens Township. But getting there was quite a feat. […]
A view of the Victor E. Scheib farm, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, taken in the 1890s. None of the members of the Scheib family have been identified. This farm […]
Believed to be a portrait of Andrew Lycans, or Lykens (1701-1756), for whom Lykens Valley, Lykens Borough, and Lykens Township are named. The following story is adapted/edited from pages 55-56 […]