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The Great Lykens Fire of 1912

Reports from two newspapers on the fire that destroyed a portion of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in November, 1912. ______________________________________________ From the Harrisburg Daily Independent, November 13, 1912: LYKENS VISITED […]

March 9, 2022
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Tower City – United States Post Office, 2021

An August 2021 GoogleMaps street view photograph of the United States Post Office, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Construction on this building began with the groundbreaking in November 1960. The […]

March 8, 2022
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Wiconisco – Birds-Eye View of Colliery

An undated newspaper birds-eye view of Wiconisco Township and the colliery in operation there. This was the Susquehanna Coal Company’s mine at Bear Gap, Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. […]

March 8, 2022
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History of the Williams Valley Railroad to 1907

The following articled appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald, November 3, 1967, as a reprint of an article that originally appeared in the same paper, April 19, 1907. THE HISTORY […]

March 6, 2022
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Reading Railroad Takes Over Operation of Williams Valley Railroad, 1907

___________________________________________________ From the West Schuylkill Herald, April 19, 1907: PHILADEPPHIA & READING TO OPERATE WILLIAMS VALLEY Tuesday, April 16th [1907] marked a new epoch in the history of the Williams […]

March 4, 2022
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Williamstown – Seybert Evangelical Church

A history of the Seybert Evangelical Church of Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from its conception in 1826, through the construction of the first church building in Williamstown in 1871, through […]

March 4, 2022
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Lykens High School at Height of Flu Epidemic, 1918

A photograph taken in 1918 showing Lykens High School at the height of the flu epidemic of 1918. Note the medical tents at the left. The photo appeared in the […]

March 3, 2022
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Anna Margaret [Kinder] Beidenmiller Dressel (1828-1902)

MRS. IGNATZ DERSSEL Mrs. Ignatz Dressel of North Second Street, died on Sunday of heart trouble and old age, after an illness of about four weeks, aged 74 years and […]

March 1, 2022

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