Warren E. Hassinger (1926-2022) – Educator
WARREN E. “HASS” HASSINGER MILLERSBURG – Warren Elvin “Hass” Hassinger, 95, of Millersburg, died May 6, 2022, at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Schuylkill East. He was born on December 12, 1926 in […]
Hannah [Clark] Seeger – Memories of the Great Gratz Fire of 1924
Many descriptions of the Great Gratz Fire of November 4, 1924, have been published – including the accounts of newspapers of the local area and region and summaries of the fire written […]
Halifax Hometown Heroes – Donald Cooper
CPL DONALD COOPER U. S. MARINE CORPS KOREAN CONFLICT See also: For information on the availability of copies of this book, contact Halifax Area Historical Society. ________________________________ Corrections and additional […]
Centralia – Hose Company No. 1, 1884
An 1884 photograph of the Centralia Hose Company No. 1 fire house, Centralia, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, with a old piece of horse-drawn fire apparatus in front. This photo appeared as […]
Robert E. Woodside – My Life and Town
In 1979, Judge Robert E. Woodside (1904-1998), of Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, one of the most successful natives of the Lykens Valley area, self-published a memoir, My Life and Town, […]
The Italian-on-Italian Murder at Shamokin, 1888
One of the most famous murder trials in the anthracite coal region in the late 1880s and early 1890s, took place at Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in February 1889. On […]
Halifax Hometown Heroes – Owen D. Bowman
PFC OWEN D. BOWMAN U. S. ARMY KOREAN CONFLICT See also: For information on the availability of copies of this book, contact Halifax Area Historical Society. ________________________________ Corrections and additional information […]
Coal Castles – Forestville Colliery
A 1911 photograph of a charging station for miners’ electric lamps. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1998: The Forestville Colliery was located on […]