Short Mountain Colliery Timeline, 1920-1929
Short Mountain Colliery: Timeline 1920-1929 1920: January 29th, the new washery began to operate. Purchased 10” x 18” conveyor line for washery to reclaim slush bank south of washery. The […]
Short Mountain Colliery Accident, 20 July 1874
From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 20 July 1874 (reporting from the Lykens Register): Accident at Short Mountain Colliery. — About seven o’clock this morning one of the boilers at the […]
Thomas A. Hensel (1853-1921)
Thomas A. Hensel was born in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 6 December 1853. His grandfather, Andrew Hensel, was born near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was born near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and was a […]
Halifax Township Created, 1804
Halifax Township was officially created in March 1804. Its original territory included the green area shown on the map above. Halifax Township was later diminished by the creation of Jackson […]
Description of Short Mountain Colliery, 1835
LYKENS VALLEY COAL MINES Transcribed from: Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser, 1835 In my late excursion through the country, bordering on the Susquehanna river, I visited Lykens Valley, in Dauphin County, […]
Wiconisco Township Created, 1840
Wiconisco Township was officially created on 26 June 1840. Its original area (green on map above) included one other present-day township [Williams Township] which was later divided from the eastern […]
Isaac Sitlinger (1833-1908)
Isaac Sitlinger, farmer and stockman, was born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 15 September 1833. George Sitlinger, the father of Isaac Sitlinger, was born in Germany, and formerly spelled his name […]
Frank P. Ferree (1853-1917)
Frank P. Ferree, farmer and stockman, Gratz, Pennsylvania, was born in Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 25 May 1853. Isaac Ferree, the great-grandfather of Frank P. Ferree, was a native […]