A 1913 photo post card view of an airplane (or aeroplane) at the Gratz Fair, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The individuals pictured are not identified. ___________________________________ Corrections and additional information […]
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 […]
A photograph taken about 1875 of a early band in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Only one individual in the photo has been identified; the man third from left is believed […]
HEGINS TOWNSHIP BAND MAROONED IN SNOW The Hegins Township High School Band under its director Bartel Shade [Schade] rendered a concert at the Farm Show at Harrisburg on Wednesday, January […]
In the 1860 Census of Washington Township, (Post Office Elizabethville), Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, there appears a family identified in the “Color” column as “m” for Mulatto. The head of the […]
On 1 March 1780, the Pennsylvania Legislature passed a law providing for the gradual abolition of slavery. It was meant to protect the rights of Pennsylvanians who owned slaves as […]
A brief notice in the Lykens Register of 5 May 1898 noted the procession in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the naval victory by the U. S. Fleet over […]
From the Pottsville Republican, 12 July 1980: Youth held for court – In shooting of police chief ELIZABETHVILLE – Ronald Lamar Kaster Jr., 19, of 469 Pottsville Street, Wiconisco, has […]