Norman Gasbarro | March 17, 2015
The 111th Pennsylvania Infantry Monument at Gettysburg is located southeast of the town of Gettysburg on Slocum Avenue. It was dedicated in 1889 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The drawing of the monument pictured above is from a Philadelphia Inquirer article of 11 September 1889. A picture of the monument can be seen on Stephen […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 16, 2015
In late 1919, two newspapers reported plans to move a large boulder from Short Mountain between Lykens Township and Wiconisco Township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to the Borough of Dauphin, which was on the Susquehanna River just south of Halifax and just north of Harrisburg. The idea was to create a memorial to area […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 13, 2015
Jacob Robert Miller was born in Halifax Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on 15 July 1833 to Peter K. Miller and Margaret [Muench] Miller. During the Civil War he served in the 201st Pennsylvania Infantry, Company E, as a Private, from 19 August 1864 through his discharge by Special Order on 7 November 1864. He died […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 12, 2015
The 110th Pennsylvania Infantry Monument at Gettysburg is located south of the town of Gettysburg on DeTrobriand Avenue. It was dedicated in 1889 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The drawing of the monument pictured above is from a Philadelphia Inquirer article of 11 September 1889. A picture of the monument can be seen on Stephen […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 11, 2015
JONAS SWAB: BIG WAGONMAKER, DIES Builder of Swab Wagons Succumbs at Home in Elizabethville WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL Elizabethville, Pennsylvania, 22 December 1913 — Jonas Swab, one of the most prominent men of the Upper End of Dauphin County, died this morning at 5:30 o’clock at his residence on Main Street, after an illness of several […]
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