Norman Gasbarro | March 12, 2013
Two more veterans have been added to the Civil War Research Project as a result of being identified in a local area publication as being from Barry Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The veterans are Thomas Hoch and his son Franklin Hoch. On a grave stone in the St. John’s United Church of Christ Cemetery, also [...]
Norman Gasbarro | March 2, 2013
The discovery of veterans who have previously not been included in the Civil War Research Project of the Gratz Historical Society is now happening on an almost daily basis. To the list of veterans must now be added Solomon Eyster of Barry Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, whose name was discovered in a book honoring veterans [...]
Norman Gasbarro | January 12, 2013
John W. Hoffman had two enlistments during the Civil War. In the first, he served as a Musician in Company D of the 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, and in the second, he was a Private in the 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company G, serving on Roanoke Island, eventually being discharged at New Bern, North Carolina, 25 June [...]
Norman Gasbarro | October 9, 2012
The following article was found in the Gratz Historical Society files about a program Ned Weaver presented in the 1990s. The photographs that appeared with the article are in the Civil War collection of the Gratz Historical Society and are re-produced for this post from the originals. Gratz Historical Society Learns of Local Civil War [...]
Norman Gasbarro | May 28, 2012
Harvey Monroe Miller, of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was a self-educated man who was an avid reader of poetry, biographies, Biblical history, and Pennsylvania German folklore and a prolific writer of and about the same. His primary business interests were in promoting trade in his hometown, including the luring of many businesses to the place [...]
The Gratz Historical Society was organized in 1977. The mission of the society is to preserve and protect the history of the upper part of Dauphin County, PA. The Society has a museum and research library at 8 W. Market Street in Gratz. Today the society has over 300 members. Visit the Society'sWebsite or follow us on Twitter @HistoryGratz and @GratzCivilWar 
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