Tri-County Ku Klux Klan Rally Scheduled for Elizabethville, 1931
In 1931, the Ku Klux Klan was less active in the Lykens Valley area than it had been in the mid-1920s. However, there are examples of the continued presence of […]
Upper Dauphin High School – Ruth Anna Burkey, 1963
A 1963 colorized portrait photograph of Ruth Anna Burkey, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1963 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]
Upper Dauphin High School – Thomas Lou Buffington, 1963
A 1963 colorized portrait photograph of Thomas Lou Buffington, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1963 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]
Edna L. [Heckert] Henninger (1887-1940)
An image of the message and address side of a post card mailed from Millersburg Post Office, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1909, and received at Pillow Post Office, […]
Upper Dauphin High School – Darla Kaye Buffington, 1963
A 1963 colorized portrait photograph of Darla Kaye Buffington, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1963 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]
Upper Dauphin High School – Donald Robert Bechtel, 1963
A 1963 colorized portrait photograph of Donald Robert Bechtel, a member of the senior class of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1963 yearbook, La Memoria, of […]
Elizabethville – Swab Fire & America Declares War, December 1941
The front page of the Elizabethville Echo, December 11, 1941, featured two major stories: (1) a fire destroyed one of the Swab Wagon Company’s buildings; and (2) America Declares War […]
Did Henry Noel Murder His Housekeeper in 1930?
In May 1930, Henry Noel, a miner, came staggering out of the woods near Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, bleeding from the neck. After being taken to the office of a […]