This obituary appeared in the Lykens Standard, February 15, 1924: GEORGE W. SCHREFFLER George Washington Schreffler, aged 66 years, 10 months and 12 days of 6419 Beechwood Street, Philadelphia, was […]
Quick action by residents and the Williamstown fire company, with some assistance from the wind changing directions, saved Williamstown from the fate of Gratz which one week earlier lost its […]
The announcement of an event that was to become the largest Ku Klux Klan demonstration ever held in the Lykens Valley, appeared in the September 26, 1924, edition of the […]
The front cover of the first telephone directory of the Wiconisco Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1936-1937. Beginning in May 1936, the company required that the operator be given the number […]
An advertisement of the Manufacturers Clothing Outlet Company, Oscar J. Stein, Manager, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from the Lykens Standard, June 12, 1908. The Manufacturers’ Clothing Outlet Company desire to […]
The stamped corner of a penny post card mailed from the Gratz Post Office, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1907, at 4 a. m. Note that the postmaster had […]
Six close-up views of a 1907 post card depicting the structure known as Fort Jackson, formerly located at the Cold Spring (south end of Spruce Street), Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. […]
“A light plane which took off from the Gratz Airport Sunday at 2:50 p. m., went into a nose dive and crashed into Sharp Mountain one mile west of Lykens, […]