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 […]
Gratz-Porter H. S. Scrap for Base Ball Honors With but one defeat marked against them the Gratz High School baseball team emerged winners of the lower end group of the […]
Both sides of the centennial medal issued for the Tower City-Porter Township Centennial (1868-1968), Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Obverse: “Hardworking Past, Building a Better Future.” Reverse: “100 Years – […]
While expected, the abandonment of the old Williams Valley Railroad was announced and reported on November 20, 1969, by the West Schuylkill Herald. Passenger service had been abandoned years before, […]
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 […]
A story about a young Lykens attorney, Henry E. Buffington, and how he established a legal principle in Pennsylvania, that an individual cannot be convicted for a crime for which […]
A brief article that appeared in the West Schuylkill Press and Pine Grove Herald, Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, June 13, 1930. A Big Attraction at Orwin Park on June 17 […]
The Porter Tunnel mine disaster occurred on March 1, 1977, near Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Related photos appeared in editions of the Evening Herald, Pottsville, on subsequent dates. Ronald […]