Through Traffic Railway Map, 1868
A post-Civil War (1868) railway map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, including the Lykens Valley Railroad, operating in the southern anthracite coal fields to New York via Perth Amboy, New […]
Millersburg – Freight Train Heading South, 2011
A photograph from 2011 of a freight train heading south, nearing the Historic Millersburg Railroad Station, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. _________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments […]
History of the Sentinel Newspaper, 1884-2021
An undated photograph of the Millersburg Sentinel office on Market Street, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The three individuals are not identified. An undated photo of Hay W. Bowman, who worked […]
Millersburg – First United Methodist Church, 2014
A 2014 Google street view of the First United Methodist Church, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ______________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
Black Residents of Upper Dauphin County, 1870
A portion of the 1870 Federal Census for Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, showing the household of Malachi Bird, a 30-year old barber. The household included Malachi’s wife and three children […]
Great Gratz Fire of 1924 As Reported by Elizabethville Echo
The story that appeared in the Elizabethville Echo of November 6, 1924 describing the Great Gratz Fire, differed only in the fact that it speculated as to how the fire […]
Millersburg Watermelon Thieves Confess, 1926
MILLERSBURG YOUTHS CONFESS TO THEFT OF WATERMELONS Four youths, Melvin Lebo, Elvin Schwalm, Homer Schwalm, and Walter Warfel of Millersburg, confessed to the theft of five watermelons, stolen during the […]
Protests Against Birth of a Nation, 1915 (5)
A copy of the theatrical poster displayed at venues showing D. W. Griffith‘s screenplay, The Birth of a Nation, which made its debit in 1915. The poster depicts a horse […]