Greenwood Cemetery, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, is located south of Grand Avenue (Route 209) in Tower City. To locate the cemetery from Grand Avenue, turn south on 4th Street and continue across the bridge over the Wiconisco Creek and the street becomes Greenwood Road. The cemetery is on the right just after the road […]
Greenwood Cemetery, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, is located south of Grand Avenue (Route 209) in Tower City. To locate the cemetery from Grand Avenue, turn south on 4th Street and continue across the bridge over the Wiconisco Creek and the street becomes Greenwood Road. The cemetery is on the right just after the road […]
The row of houses on the south side of Market Street in the first block east of Centre Street (formerly Chestnut Street) now appears as abandoned and partially boarded-up. During the Civil War, this was the property of two Gratz businessmen, Philip W. Keiter and Cyrus Snyder. The original buildings were built some time before […]
Greenwood Cemetery, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, is located south of Grand Avenue (Route 209) in Tower City. To locate the cemetery from Grand Avenue, turn south on 4th Street and continue across the bridge over the Wiconisco Creek and the street becomes Greenwood Road. The cemetery is on the right just after the road […]
Daniel Y. Lenker (1841-1900). Today’s post presents another of the biographical sketches from the volume, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, published in 1896 by J. M. Runk and Company, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Daniel Y. Lenker, distiller, was born in Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, 17 October 1871. He is a son of Nicholas Lenker […]
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