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Halifax Area Hometown Heroes – Jay C. Bowman

PVT JAY C. BOWMAN US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II 1944-1945 See also: For information on the availability of copies of this book, contact Halifax Area Historical Society. ________________________________ Corrections and […]

May 26, 2022
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Coal Castles – Burnside Colliery

Burnside Colliery is located 2.5 miles south of Shamokin in Coal Township, Northumberland County, on the Big Mountain Improvement Company tract. The colliery was opened with a drift on the […]

May 26, 2022
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Gratz – Williard Farm on Levi Marks Tract

An undated photograph of the Williard Farm, west of the town center of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The farm consisted of about 63 acres on the Levi Marks tract of […]

May 26, 2022
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Jonas Garman is Missing & Found, 1899 (1)

A portrait of Jonas Garman (1827-1908) that appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in March, 1899, included with a description of him as a missing person. Garman, who had been […]

May 25, 2022
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Halifax Area Hometown Heroes – Charles Braucher

LTC CHARLES BRAUCHER US ARMY AIR SIGNAL CORPS US AIR FORCE NATIONAL GUARD WORLD WAR II See also: For information on the availability of copies of this book, contact Halifax Area […]

May 25, 2022
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Coal Castles – Pine Knot Shaft Colliery

From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1997: The Pine Knot Shaft Colliery was located on the West Branch of the Schuylkill River west of […]

May 25, 2022
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Midland Pennsylvania Railroad Construction Camp

A photograph from around 1911 of a construction camp of the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad. This camp was located west of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and was for the workers, many […]

May 25, 2022
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Hubley Township High School – Eleanor Umholtz, 1944

A portrait photograph of Eleanor Umholtz, a 1944 graduate of Hubley Township High School, Hubley Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Eleanor joined us in our Freshman year in high school.  Since then she has been […]

May 25, 2022

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