Zerbe Gap – Franklin Breaker
An undated post card view of the Franklin Coal Breaker at Zerbe Gap, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Note the railroad tracts going in and out of the colliery, which connected to […]
Trevorton – Market Street Looking East
An undated post card view of the James Cooper Hotel and Market Street, looking east, Trevorton, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. _______________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to […]
Wiconisco – Birds-Eye View of Colliery
An undated newspaper birds-eye view of Wiconisco Township and the colliery in operation there. This was the Susquehanna Coal Company’s mine at Bear Gap, Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. […]
History of the Williams Valley Railroad to 1907
The following articled appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald, November 3, 1967, as a reprint of an article that originally appeared in the same paper, April 19, 1907. THE HISTORY […]
Reading Railroad Takes Over Operation of Williams Valley Railroad, 1907
___________________________________________________ From the West Schuylkill Herald, April 19, 1907: PHILADEPPHIA & READING TO OPERATE WILLIAMS VALLEY Tuesday, April 16th [1907] marked a new epoch in the history of the Williams […]
Centralia – Lehigh Valley Railroad Station
An undated photograph of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Station at Centralia, Columbia County, Pennsylvania. ____________________________________________________ From “Looking Back,” Pottsville Republican-Herald, May 13, 2007, via Newspapers.com. Corrections and additional information should be added […]
William H. “Bill” Beckman (1844-1907) – Civil War Veteran
William H. “Bill” Beckman died in Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, on November 14, 1907. The same day, the two Minersville newspapers published bis obituary. The first obituary presented here […]
Susquehanna Colliery -Short Mountain Coal Breaker
An undated newspaper photograph of the coal breaker of the Susquehanna Collieries at Short Mountain, Bear Gap, Wiconisco and Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Note the tracks going under the breaker […]