Jennie Dorcia [Miller] Snyder (1874-1953)
A photo post card portrait of Jennie Dorcia [Miller] Snyder, who was born in Jackson Township, 2 March 1874. She married Harvey Hiram Snyder on 24 December 1892 and had […]
Smaller Stations En Route on the Lykens Valley Railroad
A cut shown above from an 1895 railroad map gives the approximate location of the smaller railroad states on the Lykens Valley Railroad. Other than the main railroad stations on […]
Loyalton – Sunday School Picnic in the Woods, 1924
A photograph of a Sunday School picnic in 1924 n the woods at Loyalton, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Only one person in the photograph has been identified – the child in […]
Jonathan S. Zerbe – Family Picnic in Loyalton
An undated photograph of the Jonathan S. Zerbe family at a picnic in Loyalton, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This photograph was submitted by Sharman Meck-Carroll, the great-grand niece of Jonathan S. […]
Loyalton – Post Office & Snyder’s General Store, 1952
A photo of the Loyalton Post Office, Loyalton, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, taken about 1952. The post office and mail boxes are at rear left. Identified in the photograph, left to […]
Loyalton – Postmaster Melva Sitlinger, 1951
A photograph of Melva Sitlinger, Postmaster of Loyalton, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, taken about 1951 of her at work behind the counter. The post office was located in Snyder’s General Store […]
Summit Branch Railroad – “The Adams Express”
“The Adams Express” was a special passenger train that made daily runs between Williamstown and Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on the Summit Branch Railroad. From a timetable of 1875, the […]
A 1929 Proposal to Replace Train Service with Bus Service
On 3 October 1929, the Elizabethville Echo reported on a scheduled hearing to determine whether a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad would be allowed to operate busses between Lykens and […]