William H. Adams (1906-1981) – Letters From An Independent Miner (3)
This series of blog posts presents some original source material in the form of letters written by William H. Adams to the Pine Grove Press-Herald in 1977 related to the […]
The Trolley Line from Lykens to Reiner City (Muir)
An undated photograph of the trolley bridge at Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The following story is from the Souvenir Book for the Wiconisco Sesquicentennial, 1839-1989: THE TROLLEY LINE During the […]
William H. Adams (1906-1981) – Letters From An Independent Miner (2)
This series of blog posts presents some original source material in the form of letters written by William H. Adams to the Pine Grove Press-Herald in 1977 related to the Mine Disaster at the Porter Tunnel in […]
William H. Adams (1906-1981) – Letters From An Independent Miner (1)
This series of blog posts presents some original source material in the form of letters written by William H. Adams to the Pine Grove Press-Herald in 1977 related to the Mine Disaster at the Porter Tunnel in […]
Elizabethville Store Burglary, 1925
ELIZABETHVILLE STORE ROBBED: LOSS $300. Burglars Sunday night entered the store of Goldman and Spessler at Elizabethville, and carried away about 150 shirts, lot of neckties, leather suit cases, hand […]
The Great Gratz Fire of 1924 as Reported by the Elizabethville Echo
GRATZ HAS BIG FIRE EARLY TUESDAY MORNING NO FIRE FIGHTING APPARATUS, FIVE TOWNS SENT HELP The whole town of Gratz, six hundred population was threatened by a fire on Tuesday […]
Highlights from the “Washington Square Democrat,” 1878 (2)
A column entitled “Quarter Century Back,” as published in the Elizabethville Echo, June 12, 1903, refers to the predecessor of the Echo, published in 1878 at Washington Square by J. A. Ettinger, and known at […]
Dauphin County and the French and Indian War
A graphic image made in 1900 by William Henry Lippincott of an Indian raid on a colonial settlement at Deerfield, Massachusetts. While the artist attempted to depict an event that […]