Each year since 1873, a fair has been held in Gratz Borough. The Gratz Fair at the Gratz Fairgrounds will be held this year from Sunday, 16 September 2012 through Saturday 22 September 2012. The Gratz Fairgrounds are shown on a post-Civil War map (1875) as the “Gratz Driving Park and Mile Course.” A complete […]
The above article describing the “fatal affair at Gratztown” appeared in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, 27 September 1856, described the death of George Hoffman Jr. at the annual military encampment at Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. A more extensive article appeared in a Schuylkill County publication, the Farmers and Miners Journal on the same date. It […]
Mrs. Elizabeth Christine Buehler, wife of the late Dr. Henry Buehler, died at the home of her daughter in Baltimore on Monday morning aged 68 years. The remains were buried at her former home, Harrisburg, on Wednesday. From: Lykens Standard, 12 August 1904. The Harrisburg Patriot, 8 August 1904, gave a more detailed description in […]
Death of Dr. H. B. Buehler LYKENS, 5 February 1904. — After an illness lasting almost two years, Dr. Henry B Buehler, one of Harrisburg’s best known citizens, died Monday evening at his residence, No. 227 North Second Street. The direct cause of his death was dropsy born of the lingering illness that struck him […]
A listing of the January 2012 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: New Year 1862 Gratz During the Civil War – Good Tannery Henry K. Myers, Medical Doctor at Lykens Death of Henry Feindt, Postmaster of Lykens December 2011 Posts Who Was John Brubaker? Gratz During the Civil War – Daniel Good […]
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