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Fetterhoff’s Church & Cemetery – Pvt. John C. Zimmerman

| March 8, 2011

St. Peter’s Lutheran and Reformed Church (Fetterhoff’s) The current Fetterhoff’s Church in Enterline, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was built in 1858 and the building dedication took place the next year.  At the time of construction, this Union church was served by Lutheran pastor, Rev. F. Waltz, and Reformed pastor, Rev. N. E. Bressler. The first church […]

Halifax Area Civil War Veterans

| March 7, 2011

In 1969, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, celebrated 175 years of history by publishing a book, Indian Arrows to Atoms or the Story of Halifax and the Valleys.  In the preface to the book, Halifax Historian Lee B. Noblet wrote the following: Out of the past came a voice from a wilderness saying “If tall and […]

Halifax Area and the Civil War

| March 6, 2011

The Halifax area of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, consists of the area within the angle (“C’) of the triangular area of study for this Civil War Research Project (see portion of map below). Essentially, everything south of Millersburg (upper left on the insert map) and Elizabethville (upper right on the insert map) could be considered part […]

Abraham Lincoln in Dauphin County

| March 4, 2011

One hundred fifty years ago, on his way from his home in Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, D.C. for his March 4th inauguration, President-elect Abraham Lincoln made a stop in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Then, as now, Harrisburg was both the county seat and the state capital. The plan was for Lincoln to remain in Harrisburg […]

The Fair Use Doctrine and Pictures Found on Find A Grave

| March 3, 2011

In the first post about the Find A Grave site, a statement was made about those contributors to the site who are very proactive about warning people who use the site about theft of their photographs.  The understanding of these individual is that any one who uses a photograph of theirs, under any conditions and […]