Some stories about coal train derailments and Woodside Station, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and how the mail was delayed and passengers inconvenienced. Also stories about an engineer who […]
In its November 16, 1906, edition, the Lykens Standard reported on a chicken theft in the borough, and in doing so reminded its readers to look after those who area […]
A newspaper photo from the Harrisburg Evening News, August 29, 1935, showing the arrest of John Doney by Millersburg Police Chief R. W. Stakley for the murder of Doney’s long-time-friend Michael Barnhart over the right to draw a bucket of […]
On August 24, 1906, the Lykens Standard proposed that smoking be banned in the grand stands at the Lykens baseball park. In making the call, the Standard gave as a […]
In January, 1908, a major fire occurred in Boyertown, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The Rhoads’ Opera House was gutted and of the more than 400 persons who had packed the theatre […]
A quick-reacting engineer brought a morning passenger train to a halt on April 1928 near Woodside Station on the Lykens Valley Railroad, just barely averting the derailment of the locomotive […]
The dangers of traveling the back roads of the Lykens Valley at night became evident to Frank Wiest, a butcher. He was brutally attacked and robbed in September 1906 near […]
A photograph of a commemorative plate issued by the Tri-Valley Bicentennial Committee in 1975, for the Bicentennial of the United States (1776-1976). The main feature on the plate is a […]