In the souvenir book for the Elizabethville Sesquicentennial of 1967, page 131, the following brief mention is made of a Ku Klux Klan parade through that borough which took place on […]
AVIATOR AT GRATZ FAIR FLIES NINE MILES IN SIX MINUTES Special to the Telegraph Lykens, Pennsylvania, September 19 [1913] — The aeroplane flights at the Gratz Fair were fairly successful, […]
ELIZABETHVILLE HAS ITS FIRST AEROPLANE FLIGHT By Special Correspondence Elizabethville, Pennsylvania, September 20 [1913] — This place saw its first flight of an aeroplane on Wednesday, when Walter Johnson, of […]
The visit of noted aviator Walter E. Johnson to the Lykens Valley began in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where his aeroplane arrived by freight on the Lykens Valley Railroad, 16 […]
A 1913 newspaper photograph of famed aviators Walter E. Johnson and Earl Beers, of Bath, New York, who were responsible for bring the first aeroplane to the Lykens Valley. The […]
A photograph taken on 10 September 1913 of the first airplane (or aeroplane) to land at Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo appeared in the Souvenir Book for the Millersburg […]
THOMAS EDWARD ENDERS US ARMY FLIGHT ENGINEER/CREW CHIEF VIETNAM WAR Wanda, Tracey, Ira, Jimmy ___________________________________ See also: For information on the availability of copies of this book, contact Elizabethville Area […]
FLYING EXHIBITIONS BY WALTER E. JOHNSON A GREAT TREAT Lykens Valley in general and Elizabethville in particular were fortunate in having one of the most noted aviators in the country […]