Norman Gasbarro | July 12, 2012
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
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Tags: Porter Township, Regiments, Rush Township, Tower City, Wayne Township, Wiconisco
Norman Gasbarro | July 11, 2012
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
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Tags: Frailey Township, Halifax, Joliett, Porter Township, Regiments, Rush Township, Tower City, Wiconisco
Norman Gasbarro | July 10, 2012
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
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Tags: G.A.R., Lykens Borough, Orwin, Porter Township, Reilly Township, Rush Township, Tower City, Tremont, Williams Township
Norman Gasbarro | July 9, 2012
Herbert E. Stover‘s Pennsylvania: A History of Our State was a textbook in use in the schools in the Lykens Valley area in 1945 and for some years afterward. The well-used copy belonging to the Gratz Historical Society is shown above and now resides in a large collection of texts that were in use in […]
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Tags: African American, Lower Mahanoy Township
Norman Gasbarro | July 8, 2012
The post today continues a look at three men with connections to Tremont, Schuylkill County, who served in the Civil War in the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry: Jacob Shade (1833-1864); William Henry Hiney (1840-1864); and Emanuel Eckle (1843-1864) – all of whom died as a result of the war. This post is also a continuation of […]
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Tags: Hiney family, Tremont