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The Great Fisherville Fire of 1927 (3)

The following news article is from the Elizabethville Echo, September 8, 1927, via Newspapers.com. _______________________________________ FLAMES THREATENED TO WIPE OUT TOWN OF FISHERVILLE HARRISBURG COMPANIES RESPOND TO CALL TO AID […]

September 23, 2020
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The Great Fisherville Fire of 1927 (2)

The following news article is from the Lykens Standard, September 9, 1927, via Newspapers.com. _______________________________________ FISHERVILLE SUFFERED $15,000 BLAZE LABOR DAY AFTERNOON Effective work by a bucket brigade of 150 […]

September 22, 2020
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The Great Fisherville Fire of 1927 (1)

The following news article is from the Harrisburg Evening News, September 6, 1927, via Newspapers.com. _______________________________________ 19 BUILDINGS ARE BURNED AT FISHERVILLE; WOMEN WORK THE PUMPS FISHERVILLE, September 6 [1927] […]

September 21, 2020
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Cock Fighting in the Lykens Valley – Some Brief News Articles

Cock fighting is a blood sport where birds specially raised and fitted to inflict maximum damage on their opponents square off against each other in a match where humans wager […]

September 13, 2020
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Fisherville – Fire Destroys Shirt Factory & General Store, 1919

The story of the great fire of 1910 at Fisherville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, is told in news articles from Harrisburg, Elizabethville and Lykens newspapers. The fire destroyed a shirt factory […]

August 16, 2020
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George T. Leebrick – White Supremacist, 1866

During the Civil War, George T.homas Leebrick, served in the 46th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, Private.  He was a bookkeeper from Halifax and was a charter member of the G.A.R. […]

July 16, 2020
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Old Soldiers Ousted from Pottsville Armory, 1922

Imagine how many times this must have happened throughout the country?  “State officials… oust… Gowen Post G.A.R. from its headquarters in State Armory.  The Civil War veterans, who have extensive […]

July 15, 2020
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Jefferson Township – School Directors & Teachers, 1873-1874

On 20 November 1873, the Harrisburg Telegraph published a directory of School Directors and Teachers in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for the school year 1873-1874: Directory of the Public Schools of […]

May 19, 2020

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