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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]