Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, opened in 1829 and closed in 1971. For years it was the main state prison to which convicted criminals from eastern Pennsylvania were sent, including […]
A column entitled “Quarter Century Back,” as published in the Elizabethville Echo, June 5, 1903, refers to the predecessor of the Echo, published in 1878 at Washington Square by J. […]
A newspaper photograph from 1972 of Norman J. Wolfe (1919-1992), an independent coal miner, a.k.a. bootlegger, standing at the entrance to his Sharp Mountain Coal Mine near Tremont, Schuylkill County, […]
On March 9, 1914, a group of men from Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, performed a minstrel show at the Lykens Opera House. The group was variously described as […]
An undated snapshot photo of Frank Shadel and William Shadel. It is believed this photo was taken in Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, but the exact location in the town is […]
BURGLARY IN DAUPHIN COUNTY The Millersburg Herald of last Friday says — Millersburg and Washington Square arose to find that a number of business places had been entered during the […]
A snapshot photograph of the Thomas Kerstetter family, who in 1924 were living at the Union House Hotel on the southwest corner of Market and Center Streets, Gratz, Dauphin County, […]
A photograph from 1960 of Chief Red Raider, the mascot of Our Lady of Lourdes High School, Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. The caption reads: Chief Red Raider, proud of the […]