Porter-Tower Area Joint School Board, 1960
A newspaper photograph of the Porter Township – Tower City Area Joint Board of Education, which appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald, Tower City, January 15, 1960. Members pictured: Front […]
Porter Township High School – 25th Reunion of Class of 1947
A newspaper photograph of the Class of 1947 of Porter Township High School, Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, at their 25th Reunion in 1972. The photo, taken by Al Unger […]
Williams Valley High School – Girls’ Basketball, 1973
A 1973 newspaper photograph of the championship girls’ basketball team of the Williams Valley High School, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Members and personnel in the photo, which appeared in […]
Tower City – St. Paul’s Lutheran Pastor Resigns, 1972
The West Schuylkill Herald reported on February 17, 1972, that Rev. William T. Walton, minister of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Tower City, had resigned to accept a call to Trinity […]
Tower City Resident is Relative of President-Elect Kennedy, 1960
An article appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, that declared that a resident of Tower City was a close cousin of then President-Elect John Fitzgerald […]
Tropical Storm Agnes as Reported by the West Schuylkill Herald, 1972
And the Rains Came! WORST NATURAL DISASTER IN A LIFETIME Although Tower City and Porter Township, except for Sheridan, suffered less damage from water than many of the other surrounding […]
William H. Adams (1906-1981) – Letters From An Independent Miner (3)
This series of blog posts presents some original source material in the form of letters written by William H. Adams to the Pine Grove Press-Herald in 1977 related to the […]
William H. Adams (1906-1981) – Letters From An Independent Miner (2)
This series of blog posts presents some original source material in the form of letters written by William H. Adams to the Pine Grove Press-Herald in 1977 related to the Mine Disaster at the Porter Tunnel in […]