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 […]
EUGENE W. STRINE Eugene W. Strine, 73, of Williamstown, passed away Friday at the Hershey Medical Center. Born in Fisherville, September 21, 1942 a son of the late Victor Strine […]
The stamped corner of a post card showing a hand cancel applied at the Fisherville Post Office, Fisherville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The time and date of the cancel is 12 […]
A meeting of the Ku Klux Klan at Fisherville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1925, was reportedly poorly attended, mainly because of bad weather. Regardless, it was noted that despite the […]
A 1898 portrait photograph of J. E. Zimmerman, Fisherville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from The Lanthorn, the 1898 yearbook of the Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, available […]
PRR Worker Dies Of Fractured Scull In Yard Accident William V. Eckerd, 25, Elizabethville, employed as a switchman by the Pennsylvania Railroad, died in the Harrisburg Hospital Sunday evening 26 […]
Seventh in a series of nine 1904-1905 newspaper articles in which two old-timers are portrayed reminiscing about the Lykens Valley of the past. The two fictional characters, the “old railroader” […]
At the end of January 1936 a crippling blizzard hit the Lykens Valley area particularly hard. The Elizabethville Echo of 23 January 1936, in a front page article, described the […]