An undated newspaper clipping picturing four generations of the family of Carolyn [Moyer] Hess (1844-1917) of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Pictured: Seated: Carolyn [Moyer] Hess a.k.a. Mrs. John Hess. Left, […]
The Gratz Area Veterans Monument, located in front of the Gratz Community Center, Center Street, was dedicated on Memorial Day, 2005. The ceremony was in memory of Mr. Harry Walter […]
On a grassy bank just off Specktown Road in Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, is the Lykens Township Veterans Monument – which also could be called the first Gratz […]
The organizers of the Gratz Fair have canceled the 2020 event which was scheduled to take place in September. They have urged all to “remind ourselves of the past [fairs].” […]
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 […]
The Harrisburg Telegraph of April 8, 1916, reported the following about a black-face play that was to be presented by the Ladies’ Aid Society of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. While […]
A photograph dated 1903 of the new home built on the southeast corner of Market and Center Streets, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The house replaced the Lykens Hotel, a two […]
An undated photograph of Rev. Dr. Calvin Peter Wehr with his wife, Agnes E. [Peters] Wehr and daughter Florence A. Wehr and Rev. Wehr’s horse and buggy. Rev. Dr. Wehr […]