A previous post on the Pennsylvania Dutch language gave words that were used to name various occupations. This post deals with religion. Religion was an important part of life in the community and in many cases, the Pennsylvania Dutch attended worship services that were conducted in German. Previously mentioned also was that Rev. Dr. William […]
The previous post on the Pennsylvania Dutch language noted its origins and pervasiveness in the Lykens Valley at the time of the Civil War. It also gave the various terms that were used to describe relationships in the family and among friends. Much of the commerce that was conducted between and among the Pennsylvania Dutch […]
In the early 18th century, large numbers of Germans from the Palatinate region in Germany emigrated to American and settled in the fertile valleys of Pennsylvania. Within a short time these early pioneers found their way to the area around the Susquehanna River that is now called the Lykens Valley. The Pennsylvania Deutsch, as they […]
During the Civil War, John H. Bricker served in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company B, as a Private. The Veterans’ Card from the Pennsylvania Archives, shown above, indicates that a 30-year-old John Bricker enrolled at Harrisburg on 29 August 1864 and was mustered in at the same time and place in the company and regiment […]
On 5 April 1899, a story appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph telling of a “Mad Stone” that was first acquired from the Indians by a Pennsylvania Dutchman, Ferdinand Fred, in the mid-Eighteenth Century, and then was transported to Louden County, Virginia, near where the Battle of Ball’s Bluff was fought during the Civil War. The […]
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