The cover of Gratz Memories, Volume 4, published by the Gratz Historical Society, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1990. Conributors: Lena [Klinger] Kessler, Samuel Riegel, Guy C. Schieb, Ellen Shade, Clayton Umholtz, Helen [Bowers] Dietrich, Ruth Stutzman, Robert Ramsey, Steve Troutman, Marion [Romberger] Troutman, Helen […]
Charles Leroy Blockson, “Historian of the Underground Railroad,” died June 14, 2023, at his home in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was 89 years old. For those interested in the history […]
The cover of Gratz Memories, Volume 3, published by the Gratz Historical Society, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1988. Contributors: Marie Stine, Hannah Clark Seeger, Pauline Wiest Welker, Susan Miller Sepavitch, Mary Matter Bateman, Mae Rogers, Margaret Kissinger Shadle, Ruth Fidler Goss (Contributor), Mildred Kocher, Carrie […]
Many descriptions of the Great Gratz Fire of November 4, 1924, have been published – including the accounts of newspapers of the local area and region and summaries of the fire written […]
Many descriptions of the Great Gratz Fire of November 4, 1924, have been published – including the accounts of newspapers of the local area and region and summaries of the fire written […]
Many descriptions of the Great Gratz Fire of November 4, 1924, have been published – including the accounts of newspapers of the local area and region and summaries of the fire written […]
Many descriptions of the Great Gratz Fire of November 4, 1924, have been published – including the accounts of newspapers of the local area and region and summaries of the fire written […]
Above, a cabinet card photograph of Marjorie Magdalene “Maggie [Shadle] Romberger (1900-1976) and her younger sister Hannah Ellen [Shadle] Messner (1902-1997). The photograph was taken around 1905 at Roshon‘s Studio, […]