The Inclined Plane Railroad at Short Mountain Colliery
A picture said to be of the Inclined Plane Railroad at Short Mountain Colliery, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. While this has been identified in at least two places as of […]
Bill Hart – Major League Baseball Player from Wiconisco
William Woodrow “Bill” Hart Jr. was born on March 4, 1913 in Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of William W. Hart Sr. (1888-1969) and Sarah Jennie [Calnon] Hart (1882-1962). […]
Elizabethville Store Burglary, 1925
ELIZABETHVILLE STORE ROBBED: LOSS $300. Burglars Sunday night entered the store of Goldman and Spessler at Elizabethville, and carried away about 150 shirts, lot of neckties, leather suit cases, hand […]
The Great Gratz Fire of 1924 as Reported by the Elizabethville Echo
GRATZ HAS BIG FIRE EARLY TUESDAY MORNING NO FIRE FIGHTING APPARATUS, FIVE TOWNS SENT HELP The whole town of Gratz, six hundred population was threatened by a fire on Tuesday […]
Van Arnam’s Black-Face Minstrels Perform in Lykens, 1924
A poster for John R. Arnam‘s Minstrels who were scheduled to perform at the Moose Theatre in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1924. The members of this troupe were […]
Lykens-Wiconisco Singing Group Performs Minstrel, 1914
On March 9, 1914, a group of men from Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, performed a minstrel show at the Lykens Opera House. The group was variously described as […]
Deitrich Falls to Death at Mine, 1903
FALLS TO HIS DEATH Benjamin R. Deitrich, a young single man of Lykens, fell 200 feet into a slope at Short Mountain Colliery at Lykens last Monday, and died on […]
Black Residents of Upper Dauphin County, 1880
A portion of the 1880 Federal Census for Gratz Borough, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, showing two families living in the same household. The 1880 Census used two terms to identify Blacks […]