Bill Hart – Major League Baseball Player from Wiconisco
William Woodrow “Bill” Hart Jr. was born on March 4, 1913 in Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of William W. Hart Sr. (1888-1969) and Sarah Jennie [Calnon] Hart (1882-1962). […]
Wiconisco Public School Building, 1970
A photograph taken about 1970 of the Wiconisco Public School, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. _______________________________________________ From the Souvenir Book for the Wiconisco Sesquicentennial (1839-1989). Corrections and additional information should be added […]
The Great Gratz Fire of 1924 as Reported by the Elizabethville Echo
GRATZ HAS BIG FIRE EARLY TUESDAY MORNING NO FIRE FIGHTING APPARATUS, FIVE TOWNS SENT HELP The whole town of Gratz, six hundred population was threatened by a fire on Tuesday […]
Wiconisco Public School Building, 1959
A photograph taken about 1959 of the Wiconisco Public School, Oak Street Entrance, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. _______________________________________________ From the Souvenir Book for the Wiconisco Sesquicentennial (1839-1989). Corrections and additional information […]
Wiconisco High School – Auditorium & Gymnasium Building
An undated photograph of the auditorium and gymnasium of the Wiconisco High School, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. _______________________________________________ From the Souvenir Book for the Wiconisco Sesquicentennial (1839-1989). Corrections and additional […]
Lykens-Wiconisco Singing Group Performs Minstrel, 1914
On March 9, 1914, a group of men from Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, performed a minstrel show at the Lykens Opera House. The group was variously described as […]
Local Minstrels Get Ideas from Philadelphia, 1906
An undated photograph of the Dumont’s Minstrel Theatre at the corner of 9th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, operated by Frank Dumont, nationally-known master of the minstrel. Dumont acquired the theatre […]
The Bogus Nickel Coiners of Washington Square, 1873
COINING THEIR OWN MONEY Mrs. Daniel Boyer, who lives in an old house on the road leading from Washington Square across Berry’s Mountain, near the intersection of the Powel’s Valley […]