JOSEPH MARRA Joseph “Joe” “Bobby” Marra, formerly from Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, passed quietly to meet his Creator and be reunited with his loving parents and many siblings at 7:57 […]
A studio portrait photograph taken around 1894 of the Charles Eby Family of the Lykens Valley. The family lived in various communities of the valley including Elizabethville, Washington Township, Berrysburg, […]
A 1917 photograph of the basketball team of the Elizabethville High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. None of the individuals in the photo are identified. _________________________________ Corrections and additional information […]
An undated photo post card view of the fourth public school building in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. In 1894, construction was begun on a two-story brick building at the north […]
A photograph taken around 1887 of the Odd Fellows building in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The building, which was built in 1872, was formally dedicated in June 1873, with elaborate […]
The Elizabethville Echo of January 26, 1926, reported the following about a black-face play that was to be presented by the teacher and pupils of the Holtzman School, a one-room […]
The Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election of 1866 pitted a Union General and war hero, John W. Geary, against a avowed racist and white supremacist, Heister Clymer. Geary headed the Republican or […]
The African American population as reported in the 1860 Census for selected areas of the Lykens Valley area is presented in today’s blog post. In 1860, African Americans were enumerated […]