A photograph taken in March 2011 of the Daniel Miller Memorial Fountain, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. In Honor of Daniel Miller Founder of Millersburg, 1807 Historical Marker After the […]
A photograph of the two Halifax Bank killers on the scaffold in Harrisburg, as they were being prepared for the “drop” that would end their lives. The photo appeared in […]
In 1932, the students of the Lykens Valley Vocational School at Berrysburg, staged a black-face comedy to benefit the school’s Athletic Association. This appears to be the same production that […]
Ray W. Bohner‘s death occurred while he was on a hunting party. The cause of death was an accidental discharge of a gun. The article which appeared in the Lykens […]
LYKENS VALLEY COAL – WHEN DISCOVERED On a Sabbath day in the year 1825, Jacob Burd Sr., and Peter Kimes, then living at the lower end of Short Mountain, in […]
In 1934, the Lykens Valley had a rat problem. Rats were everywhere, and the residents, in cooperation with the County and Federal government, devised a plan to completely eradicate them. […]
MINERS’ DEPOSIT BANK The feeling of security afforded to a community by the possession of an old, solid and responsible banking institution, whose financial standing is beyond question, cannot be […]
A 1963 colorized portrait photograph of Joan Marie Zimmerman, a member of the senior class of the Millersburg High School, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ______________________________________ From the 1963 Susquehannock, the yearbook of Millersburg High School, available in […]