In the early morning hours of September 1972, while he waited watching his garage which had been previously burglarized several times, Charles Fix encountered an intruder, Joseph Hoy. After startling […]
An undated portrait of Franklin “Frank” Bressler in his Grand Army of the Republic (G. A. R.) uniform. Frank was born in Hubley Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, on February 8, […]
On August 28, 1972, a man burglarizing a building at the Hegins Mining Company was caught in the act by Hegins Township Police. In an attempt to avoid apprehension, he […]
A December 1947 newspaper photograph (colorized) of William Riskis, 58-year-old miner of Reinerton, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, who was held at Pottsville and charged with the murder of fellow miner, Stanley […]
On October 28, 1931, a 12-year old Tower City boy named Mark Norman English saw a gun on the seat of a car parked in front of his house. He […]
A colorized version of a photo taken in the mid-1920s of the students of the Lorberry School, Lorberry, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Lorberry, in Tremont Township, is located on Molleystown Road, […]
An undated photograph of a touring car (model and year unknown), on a street in Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. None of the young men and women riding in the car […]
A photograph taken in May 1936 of a Red Cross Home Nursing Class, Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The photo appeared in the “Down Memory Lane” feature of the Pine Grove […]