Richard Nolen – Recollections of 40 Years, 1825-1865 (3 of 7)
Part 3. From the Lykens Standard, 9 May 1902: RECOLLECTIONS OF 40 YEARS Regarding the Lykens Valley Coal Mines and Vicinity Adjacent BY RICHARD NOLEN, ESQ. Which first appeared in […]
Richard Nolen – Recollections of 40 Years, 1825-1865 (1 of 7)
Part 1. From the Lykens Standard, 25 April 1902: RECOLLECTIONS OF 40 YEARS Regarding the Lykens Valley Coal Mines and Vicinity Adjacent BY RICHARD NOLEN, ESQ. Which first appeared in […]
Lykens Colliery
An undated photograph identified only as a colliery at Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. _________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
Charles G. Riegle (1876-1913) – Killed at Short Mountain Colliery
An undated portrait photograph of Charles Gerome Riegle (1876-1913), who was born in Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 10 October 1876, the son of Harrison Riegle (1840-1899) and Hannah […]
Minnie A. [Coleman] Riegle (1880-1958) – Widowed from Short Mountain Accident, 1913
An undated portrait photograph of Minnie Amanda [Coleman] Riegle (1880-1958), who was born near Gratz, in Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 21 December 1880, the daughter of John C. Coleman […]
Henry Bendigo – Porter Township Tax Collector & Hotel Proprietor at Orwin
An undated photograph of a wagon and team and picturing driver Mr. Piltz of the Lykens Brewery, and Henry Bendigo and his daughter of Orwin, Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. […]
L. Christine Boecker of Lykens, 1930
A 1930 portrait photograph of L. Christine Boecker, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from The Serpentine, the 1930 yearbook of the West Chester State Teachers College, West Chester, […]
Little Railways of the Lykens Valley
In 1996, Gene D. Gordon and Benson W. Rohrbeck wrote Little Railways of the Lykens Valley: Lykens and Williams Valley Street Railway Company and Midland Pennsylvania Railroad Company. This spiral-bound […]