Norman Gasbarro | August 25, 2017
Today’s post presents some events involving the Ku Klux Klan that were reported in the Elizabethville Echo. Each event needs further research. The post is a continuation of the reporting on hate groups that were active in the Lykens Valley area in the years following the Civil War. It was a widely known fact that […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 9, 2015
CARSONVILLE MERCHANT DIES OF APOPLEXY Elizabethville, 19 July 1917 —Alexander McLaughlin, a Civil War veteran who for many years conducted the general store and post office at Carsonville, died at his home here this afternoon at 4:30 p.m., following a stroke of paralysis. He was 76 years of age. He is survived by three sons, […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 11, 2013
The Gratz Historical Society has a collection of compiled and original copies of records from most of the churches in the Lykens Valley area. One of the most useful sets of book is the nine-volume edition of Dauphin County Church Records. These volumes contain a variety of records for the indicated churches, including birth and […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 20, 2012
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was updated 19 April 2012. In a series of post beginning today and continuing intermittently for eight posts until concluding at the end of this month, a brief sketch of each of […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 28, 2010
(Part 2 of 3). Benjamin Buffington (c1730-1814), the great-grandson of Richard Buffington, emigrant from Great Marlow on the Thames, England, was the first of the Buffington family to settle in the Lykens Valley. After the American Revolution, in which he served in Captain Weaver’s Company, he brought his family to the area at the end […]
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