Two Teens Charged with Elizabethville Hate Crime, 2015
Police: 2 Teens Burned Cross at Woman’s Home ELIZABETHVILLE – Two teenage boys have been charged in a cross-burning incident at the northern Dauphin County home of a black woman. […]
Washington Township School Directors & Teachers, 1873-1874
On 20 November 1873, the Harrisburg Telegraph published a directory of School Directors and Teachers in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for the school year 1873-1874: Directory of the Public Schools of […]
YWCA Aided Elizabethville Cross Burning Victim, 2015
ELIZABETHVILLE – The YWCA of Greater Harrisburg is helping a Dauphin County woman who was the victim of a cross burning. Ashley Brooks, 29, is a black single mother of […]
Two Teens Arrested in Elizabethville Cross Burning, 2015
POLICE: BOYS BURN CROSS ON LAWN ELIZABETHVILLE – Two boys were charged on Wednesday for burning a 2-foot cross at 6 P.M., January 22 [2015) on a lawn in Washington […]
Why Was There a Cross Burning in Elizabethville in 2015?
On Thursday evening, 22 January 2015, a hate crime occurred in Washington Township, just outside the Borough of Elizabethville, at the home of a young African American woman. The woman, […]
Police Investigate Elizabethville Cross Burning, 2015
DAUPHIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA — Police are investigating a case of ethnic intimidation [hate crime] in Elizabethville, Dauphin County. State police say someone placed a two-foot tall cross in front of […]
Elizabethville – Old Stone Church & Cemetery
An undated photo post card image of the Old Stone Church, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the “First House of Worship in Elizabethville.” The Old Stone Church was a Union church […]
Isaac Swab (1845-1924)
A biographical sketch of Isaac Swab, also known as Schwab, as revised and edited from what appeared in the Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County: ISAAC SWAB, foundryman, was born […]