Godfrey Sammet – White Supremacist, 1866
During the Civil War, Godfrey Sammet, served in the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, as a 2nd Lieutenant. He was a tailor from Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. According to military […]
The Great Flood of 1972 – Flood Coordinator Earl Buffington Directs Workers in Lykens
A post June 1972 photograph of the clean-up of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Photo Caption: Flood Co-Ordinator Earl Buffington on the left working with members of the National Guard at […]
World War I – Steever R. Day – Died of Pneumonia, 1919
MILLERSBURG SOLDIER DIES IN FRANCE (1919) Steever R. Day of Millersburg, died in France on February 28, from pneumonia, the first death of a Millersburg lad overseas. He was a […]
Fountain All Wars Veterans Memorial, 2010
Behind the Christ Church, United Church of Christ, Fountain, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, lies a small, but historic cemetery. Within that cemetery is the Fountain All Wars Veterans Monument. The bronze […]
World War II – Vance K. Blyler – Killed in Belgium, 1945
LT. VANCE BLYLER KILLED IN BELGIUM Lt. Vance K. Blyler was killed in action in Belgium on January 19, according to word received by his widow, Mrs. Helen M. Blyler, […]
Eisenhower Family Civil War Veterans
Entering Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from the west on Route 209, a large stone monument can be seen up on a grassy bank on the right side of the road. […]
Openly White Supremacist Union Soldiers Identified, 1866
On July 24, 1866, the Harrisburg Patriot printed a petition with the names of Union veterans who had signed it, that called for a convention of returning soldiers at Harrisburg […]
Specktown – A Soldier & His Wife Visit the Homestead
A snapshot photograph taken about 1942 of Harold Dietrich (1919-1988) in his World War II military uniform (Army Air Corps) standing next to his wife Quineta [Hamlin] Dietrich (1921-2013), at […]