Norman Gasbarro | January 7, 2012
The house and lot known as #10 was one of several properties in Gratz Borough that was owned by the Daniel Good family. Its original owner was Abraham Herner, a stone mason, who purchased the land from Simon Gratz in 1816. Abraham sold the land to members of the Hartman family in 1818. Subsequently, transactions […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 20, 2011
The original owner of this lot was probably Samuel Dubendorf and the house that is here was probably built before 1828. Dubendorf sold the property to Henry Schreiner in 1830. In 1838, Henry Schreiner sold this property to Abraham Hess. Hess was a shoemaker and probably built the shop building that still stands today adjacent […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 7, 2011
This is the seventh in a series of posts on Gratz during the Civil War. The original house on Lot #38 on the south side of Market Street was built about 1822, probably by Barbara Wiest, the widow of Jacob Wiest who died in 1811; she had re-married to Michael Salada. In 1830, John DeWalt, […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 1, 2011
This is the first of three posts on the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The cemetery is located at the east end of Williamstown on the north side of Market Street. Today, and for the next two days, a total of eighteen grave markers will be shown from this cemetery with information […]
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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