Norman Gasbarro | August 26, 2011
William Thomas was born on 3 April 1838 in Wales and came to America at an early age with his father, John Thomas, who was a coal miner. The family settled in Wiconisco, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania. Like his father, William became a coal miner and in 1860, he was working in the mines around Lykens. […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 14, 2011
Civil War veteran burials in the Calvary United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, are continued today. —————————— Daniel D. Jury (1843-1904). Served in the 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, as a Private, from his muster in on 9 August 1862 to muster out on 29 May 1863. He later served in the 208th […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 13, 2011
Calvary United Methodist Church is located in Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on the south side of Pottsville Street at the east end of town. According to information found in the Lykens-Williams Valley History – Directory and Pictorial Review, edited and compiled by J. Allen Barrett in 1922, the first Methodist Church was erected here in […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 26, 2011
The Williamstown–Williams Township Historical Society is located at 115 W. Market Street, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Within the building are many collections related to local churches, schools, military, sports, and family history. The historical society also includes Wiconisco and Tower City, the two neighboring communities which have a similar past. One of the centerpieces of […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 25, 2011
In the Lower Cape Fear area of North Carolina is a mansion and plantation with a direct connection to the Civil War and to the Lykens Valley area. The painting shown above was completed in the 1970s by Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, artist Leah [Radel] Weaver. Leah Weaver began painting shortly after she married Ned […]
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