Lykens – Dr. Zeldin Hospital, 1949
A 1949 photograph of the new Zeldin Hospital for maternity patients, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The hospital opened in March 1949, and at the time, was featured in local newspapers. […]
Leroy Kopp – Football Player for Tower City & Williamstown
An undated photograph of Leroy Kopp (1897-1972) as a football player. Kopp was known to have played for teams in Tower City and Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It is also […]
Tower City – Police Chief Leroy Kopp
An undated photograph of Leroy Kopp (1897-1972) in uniform, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Kopp served as Police Chief of Tower City from 1923 to 1963 and supervised every law […]
Michael Romiski – Killed at East Brookside Colliery, 1927
From the West Schuylkill Herald of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, of 16 December 1927, came the following notice of the instant death of Michael Romiski, a worker at the […]
Leroy Kopp – 40 Years as Police Chief of Tower City, 1923-1963
A portrait of Police Chief Leroy Kopp, along with the following article appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 16 January 1963: Leroy Kopp Began 40th […]
Lykens Valley Campmeeting, 1894-1967
An undated photograph of the original tabernacle on the United Brethren Campground at Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The tabernacle was part of the Lykens Valley Campmeeting which was held at […]
Joel A. Dinger (1920-1946) – Killed in Plane Crash in Georgia
TOWER CITY PILOT KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Captain Joel A. Dinger, 26, pilot in the U. S. Army Air Forces, son of Mrs. Maria Dinger, Tower City, R. D., was […]
Susan A. [Zimmerman] Travitz (1857-1949)
MRS. SUSAN A. TRAVITZ Mrs. Susan Amanda Travitz, age 91 years, widow of Cornelius Travitz, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Curtis Zimmerman, Tower City, Wednesday evening. She […]