An early childhood photograph of brother and sister, John “Jack” Bailey and Evelyn [Bailey] Miller, of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. SCHUYLKILL MEMORY LANE QUIZ Clue: The brother and sister […]
On 4 December 1953, in bad weather, a small plane carrying four New Jerseyans, crashed into the mountain south of Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, killing all aboard. Following an investigation […]
A 1930 portrait photograph of Paul Ivan Updegrove, Muir, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from The Serpentine, the 1930 yearbook of the West Chester State Teachers College, West Chester, […]
An undated baby photo of Harry Neyer, a native of Muir, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, but in 1974 was living in Utah. SCHUYLKILL MEMORY LANE QUIZ Clue: A native of Muir, […]
At the end of January 1936 a crippling blizzard hit the Lykens Valley area particularly hard. The Elizabethville Echo of 23 January 1936, in a front page article, described the […]
A small collection of newspaper articles from the West Schuylkill Herald, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, announcing and describing Donkey Ball events in the greater Lykens Valley area. For all […]
An undated topographical map of Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, produced by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. The communities of Tower City, Sheridan, Reinerton, Orwin, Muir, Williams Valley […]
On 3 October 1929, the Elizabethville Echo reported on a scheduled hearing to determine whether a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad would be allowed to operate busses between Lykens and […]