An undated photograph of the trolley bridge at Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The following story is from the Souvenir Book for the Wiconisco Sesquicentennial, 1839-1989: THE TROLLEY LINE During the […]
A portrait of Gov. Arthur H. James (1883-1973), a Republican who took the side of the “bootleg” miners in the debate over strip mining in the southern anthracite coal fields. […]
In 1901, much was attention was given to a missing man from Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. On February 8, 1901, the Lykens Standard reported that he had been found in […]
A brief article appearing in the West Schuylkill Herald, July 5, 1967, described a display in the newspaper office window of sketches made in 1888 of Tower City and Porter […]
IVY TAYLOR BOPP Ivy [Taylor] Bopp, 103, of Williamstown, passed away Saturday, January 18th [2020] at the Tremont Health and Rehabilitation Center. Ivy was born January 2, 1917, in Warrington England, […]
An undated photo post card view of Horn’s Famous Singing Band, Muir, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. ________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
Cock fighting is a blood sport where birds specially raised and fitted to inflict maximum damage on their opponents square off against each other in a match where humans wager […]
Two newspaper photographs of the Tremont Firemen’s Parade, as they appeared in the West Schuylkill Press and Pine Grove Herald, Tremont, July 13, 1951. Photo caption (above): Hosts to over […]