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Fisherville – Beard Farm Damaged by Cyclone, 1910

Two photographs of the Beard farm on Rutter Road near Fisherville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, showing damage from a cyclone or tornado that hit the area on June 18, 1910. The […]

January 30, 2024
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Some Fires In Vicinity of Woodside Station

Firefighters work to contain and extinguish a mountainside fire on the north side of Berries Mountain, near Woodside Station in 1935. This fire was one of many that occurred in […]

January 13, 2024
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Attempted Train Wreck Near Woodside Station, 1928

A quick-reacting engineer brought a morning passenger train to a halt on April 1928 near Woodside Station on the Lykens Valley Railroad, just barely averting the derailment of the locomotive […]

January 9, 2024

Halifax Man Hanged for Murder of Brother-in-Law in 1900

On the night of January 16, 1900, Elmer E. Barner shot and killed his brother-in-law, Isaac J. Miller, at Miller’s home near Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Barner had claimed that […]

August 17, 2023
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A Murder-Suicide in Carsonville, 1931

The following murder-suicide story appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, September 3, 1931: CARSONVILLE MAN SHOOTS GIRL THEN COMMITS SUICIDE, SATURDAY Motivated by jealousy and the fact that his sweetheart had […]

January 21, 2023
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Fisherville Man in Hunting Party Accidentally Kills Another, 1925 – Murder Trial, 1926

On December 10, 1925, a group of men from the Elizabethville and Halifax areas, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, set out to hunt deer on Berry’s Mountain. At one point, three shots […]

January 18, 2023
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Lykens to Fisherville via Halifax Post Office, 1907

A penny post card mailed from Lykens Post Office, January 22, 1907, at 1 p. m., to Mr. G. W. D. Enders, Fisherville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The card was received […]

January 2, 2023
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Anna Margaret [Kinder] Beidenmiller Dressel (1828-1902)

MRS. IGNATZ DERSSEL Mrs. Ignatz Dressel of North Second Street, died on Sunday of heart trouble and old age, after an illness of about four weeks, aged 74 years and […]

March 1, 2022

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