Coal Castles – Silverton Colliery (1852-1918)
A photograph from around 1900, looking up from the floor level, showing the shaker screens in the old wood breaker at the Silverton Colliery. From a series of articles that […]
A photograph from around 1900, looking up from the floor level, showing the shaker screens in the old wood breaker at the Silverton Colliery. From a series of articles that […]
A 1913 photograph taken by Noll depicts an auto rally at Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, none of the individuals in the photo are identified and not much more is […]
In the early morning hours of September 1972, while he waited watching his garage which had been previously burglarized several times, Charles Fix encountered an intruder, Joseph Hoy. After startling […]
An undated picture post card view (colorized) of Market Street, looking east, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. _______________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
A photograph from 1922 of the double-track slope of the Boston Run Breaker. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1997: The Boston Run Colliery […]
GUNNER’S SUDDEN DEATH Phaon Heinbach, while out gunning for game on Thursday, last (the opening of the rabbit season) in Batdorf’s Swamp, a half mile north of Pine Grove, in […]
A photograph of the 1938 public works painting by John W. Beauchamp, titled “The Ride of Rachel Silverthorn.” The painting hangs in the Muncy Post Office, Muncy, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. […]
An undated photo post card view (colorized) of a parade float of the Eagle Iron Works, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The occasion for the parade is not known nor are […]