On 4 November 2014, a post entitled “The Groff Brothers? Hiram, Valentine and William,” was presented here. Some questions were asked in that post and readers were asked to submit additional information about the men named Groff. Note: A prior post also discussed “Israel M. Groff and Sons – All Civil War Veterans?” The following […]
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012. In a series of posts beginning today and continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then […]
The announcement of the death of Miss Frances Awl at the age of 79 in the Harrisburg Patriot, 19 September 1921, provided information to connect two men of the surname “Awl” to each other as brothers. Colonel F. Asbury Awl and Colonel J. Wesley Awl were both Civil War veterans from Dauphin County. The obituary […]
At the side of the Herndon National Bank in Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, is an historical marker that was mentioned in yesterday’s post. That post discussed the Susquehanna River Bridge that no longer exists between Trevorton Junction (now Herndon) and Port Trevorton. The text of the marker reads: Herndon Formerly Trevorton Junction By deed dated […]
A recent book donation to the Gratz Historical Society has helped renew interest in a well-known event that took place on the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg in the crucial days preceding the Battle of Gettysburg in June, 1863. Flames Across the Susquehanna is a novel by Glenn Banner and is based on the […]
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