Proposed Lykens Valley Country Club, 1929
PROPOSED COUNTRY CLUB BUILDING A special meeting of members of the Lykens Valley Country Club was held at Hotel Lykens recently. A 50-acre farm situated two miles west of Lykens […]
Elizabethville – Unrivaled Hosiery Mill, 1925-1932
The Unrivaled Hosiery Mill was one of many apparel factories that operated in the Lykens Valley area in the first three quarters of the twentieth century. A brief history of […]
A Black-Face Play in Elizabethville Directed by P. Kerwin, 1935
A newspaper photo of the seven female cast members of a production of a racist play, A Southern Cinderella.* Note the character at left, a white woman in “black-face and […]
Rev. Dr. Calvin P. Wehr & Family with Horse & Buggy
An undated photograph of Rev. Dr. Calvin Peter Wehr with his wife, Agnes E. [Peters] Wehr and daughter Florence A. Wehr and Rev. Wehr’s horse and buggy. Rev. Dr. Wehr […]
Ministers Respond to ‘Despicable’ Cross Burning in Elizabethville
Te following was submitted to the Harrisburg Patriot-News on February 15, 2015, in response to a late January 2015 cross burning in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania: The recent cross-burning incident […]
A Black-Face Play in Washington Township, 1926
The Elizabethville Echo of January 26, 1926, reported the following about a black-face play that was to be presented by the teacher and pupils of the Holtzman School, a one-room […]
Elizabethville – Swab Wagon Company Catalog
A reproduction catalog of Swab Wagon Company, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. “Wagons That Wear“ _________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
Eisenhower Family Civil War Veterans
Entering Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from the west on Route 209, a large stone monument can be seen up on a grassy bank on the right side of the road. […]