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Man Killed on Williams Valley Railroad, 1906

“Hop” Evans, was run down and killed on the Williams Valley Railroad Friday evening by the train reaching there at 7:42 o’clock.… the man’s body was frightfully mangled.  His legs […]

February 22, 2024
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Upper Paxton Township – Neagley’s School Trip to Lover’s Rock

An undated photograph taken at Lover’s Rock near Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, of the students of Keefer’s School, Upper Paxton Township. After performing clean-up duties on the last day of […]

February 22, 2024
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Upper Dauphin High School – Brenda Lee Miller, 1964

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

February 22, 2024
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Navy Dirigible Flies Near Lykens Valley, 1928

September 1, 1928 – On a trip to Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, to participate in the dedication of the new airport at that place, the largest airship/dirigible in the Navy, […]

February 21, 2024
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Millersburg – Man Drops Dead During Breakfast at Hotel, 1915

Brief articles that appeared in Harrisburg newspapers on March 8, 1915, and the Lykens Standard, told of the sudden death of Cornelius Fralick, a 64 year old Millersburg resident and […]

February 21, 2024
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Williamstown – Moss Grocery Store

A photograph taken around 1976 of the John Edgar Moss Grocery Store, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. A profile of him appeared in the 1976 Sesquicentennial Book: John Edgar Moss was […]

February 21, 2024
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Upper Dauphin High School – Donald Lamar Michael, 1964

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

February 21, 2024
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Wiconisco – Fire Destroys First Baptist Church, 1906

A newspaper photograph of the First Baptist Church, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo appeared as part of an article in the Lykens Standard, January 12, 1906, in which the […]

February 20, 2024

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