Norman Gasbarro | April 8, 2016
In a prior post on this blog entitled Lykens Railroad Station, maps were presented showing the locations of Civil War era railroad structures at the terminus of the Lykens Valley Railroad in Lykens Borough. Today’s post will feature some of those structures as photographed in 1916 and found in the files of the Interstate Commerce […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 6, 2016
Henry H. Weaver is buried at David’s Cemetery, Killinger, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He died in late 1861 or early 1862 at Jeffersonville, Indiana, of disease, presumably “congestion of the lungs.” From the Diary of William Thomas, of Lykens Borough, who also served in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company B, with Weaver, which was compiled by […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 5, 2016
Daniel Williard is buried at Zion (Klinger’s) Cemetery at Erdman, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. His grave marker is a government issue stone which notes that he served in the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I. Daniel Williard is honored on the Lykens G.A.R. Monument. He’s named as a Private who was a member of the […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 4, 2016
Previously on this blog, a brief discussion of the Elizabethville Railroad Station (Lykens Valley Railroad) mentioned the following: The railroad station at Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, which was built about 1872, still stands today and is one of the oldest stations still in existence in central Pennsylvania. The tracks, which once ran through this borough, […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 30, 2016
From the Philadelphia Inquirer, 20 February 1906: CARS CRUSH SHANTY: KILL WAR VETERAN Special to the Inquirer SHAMOKIN, Pennsylvania, 19 February 1906 — While sitting in a shanty near the Reading Railway, near here, to-day, Charles Henning, an aged war veteran and well known local resident, met a horible death. Two freight cars left the […]
;