A December 1947 newspaper photograph (colorized) of William Riskis, 58-year-old miner of Reinerton, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, who was held at Pottsville and charged with the murder of fellow miner, Stanley […]
In late June 1928, Milton Trumbo, a miner, who was described as a “crazy drunk,” fired his shotgun into the chest of his close friend, Charles Kramer, also a miner, […]
The grave of Savilla [Coleman] Hepler and her daughter Mary Martha Hepler can be found at St. Michael’s United Church of Christ Cemetery, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Both were […]
In April 1940, 20-year-old handyman, Robert Michaels, at a coal shaker office near Tower City, decided to show off his “quick draw skills” with his .38 calibre revolver to a […]
A photograph taken in March 2011 of the Daniel Miller Memorial Fountain, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. In Honor of Daniel Miller Founder of Millersburg, 1807 Historical Marker After the […]
On February 1, 1907, Harrisburg lost its magnificent Grand Opera House in a devastating fire that nearly wiped out the many buildings that surrounded it. The Grand Opera House was […]
A photograph of the remains after a January 25,1963 fire in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, which completely destroyed Rube Aboff‘s appliance store on South Market Street. The fire also destroyed […]
In May 1926, Jessie Diken, a widow with five children who ran a boarding house north of Williamstown, where four miners were staying, was murdered by one of those boarders, […]