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Lykens High School, 1907

A newspaper photograph (later colorized) picturing the Class of 1907. Lykens High School, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo appeared in the Lykens Standard, May 24, 1907, along with the following identifications: Front Row […]

January 13, 2024
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Elizabeth [Bowman] Lyter (1814-1906) – First Woman of Enders

MRS. JOSEPH P. LYTER – FIRST WOMAN RESIDENT OF ENDERS, PASSES AWAY Mrs. Elizabeth Lyter, of whose illness mention was made by our Enders correspondent last week, has since passed […]

January 13, 2024
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Some Fires In Vicinity of Woodside Station

Firefighters work to contain and extinguish a mountainside fire on the north side of Berries Mountain, near Woodside Station in 1935. This fire was one of many that occurred in […]

January 13, 2024
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Upper Dauphin High School – Mary Kathryn Brosius, 1964

A 1964 colorized portrait photograph of Mary Kathryn Brosius, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1964 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]

January 12, 2024
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Coaldale – One Arrested in Attempted Burglary, 1906

This story of two men attempting to rob a house in Coaldale, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was reported in the Lykens Standard of November 23, 1906. One was caught and one […]

January 12, 2024
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The Salem Church of Rough & Ready

The following was taken from a talk by Steve E. Troutman at the Gratz Historical Society meeting, October 28, 2010 held at the Simeon Lutheran Church in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________________________ Tonight I want […]

January 12, 2024
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Williamstown – Market Street Scene (3)

An undated post card view of Market Street, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Note the trolley and track in the center of the street. The Opera House is the three story building […]

January 12, 2024
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The Water Bucket Murder, 1935

A newspaper photo from the Harrisburg Evening News, August 29, 1935, showing the arrest of John Doney by Millersburg Police Chief R. W. Stakley for the murder of Doney’s long-time-friend Michael Barnhart over the right to draw a bucket of […]

January 11, 2024

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