;

Civil War Blog

A project of PA Historian

Sweitzer’s Memorial Cemetery, Berrysburg

| July 20, 2011

Sweitzer’s Memorial Cemetery is located on the western side of Main Street (Route 225) heading south out of the center of Berrysburg toward Elizabethville.  The cemetery is also known as the “E.U.B. Cemetery.”  It’s a large cemetery with several sections and offers a nice view of the valley – including the spire of the St. […]

Peace Cemetery, Berrysburg

| July 19, 2011

Peace Cemetery is located within the Borough of Berrysburg on Third Street and North Main Street.  The Peace Church of the United Church of Christ is located about one blocks from the cemetery.  This is an old cemetery and contains the graves of many Civil War soldiers. A representative group of four Civil War graves […]

Old Methodist Cemetery, Berrysburg

| July 18, 2011

Old Methodist Cemetery is located west, just outside the borough streets of Berrysburg, traveling on Route 25 toward Millersburg.  It’s on the right side and there is no clearly marked entrance.  In fact, a sign on the only access road notes that the road is a private driveway and warns, “Do Not Enter.”  Many Civil […]

Civil War Cemeteries of Berrysburg

| July 17, 2011

Old maps from the Civil War era help to identify the locations of four cemeteries in and around Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  In the 1858 map shown above, the cemetery known today as “Peace Cemetery” is identified along North Main Street.  One block west and one block south is the German Reformed and Lutheran Church […]

Gratz During the Civil War – Theodore Gratz House

| July 16, 2011

This is the fifth in a series of posts on Gratz during the Civil War. Lot #16 and the house on it was purchased by Daniel Good (1809-1870) in 1859, the owner of the Good Tannery at the west end of Gratz, who owned it and several other properties in this block during the Civil […]