Norman Gasbarro | May 31, 2012
Although Pillow is located in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the Pillow Union Cemetery is actually located on the north side of the Mahantongo Creek, which places it in Jordan Township, Northumberland County. To locate the cemetery, head east on Market Street from the central square of Pillow, cross the small bridge for the Mahantongo Creek, and […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 25, 2012
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was updated 19 April 2012. In a series of post beginning last Friday and continuing intermittently for seven posts until concluding at the end of this month, a brief sketch of each […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 13, 2011
Zion’s Lutheran and German Reformed Church and Cemetery, also known as Hoover‘s Church, is located just north of Route 209 in Rife, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Rife is a small village located to the west of Elizabethville. Today, the church is known as Zion Lutheran Church and its pastor is Rev. Beth George. […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 20, 2011
Today, the blog post again continues to feature members of the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, who served the full term of nine months and received honorable discharges on 5 August 1863. The research results presented here are based on preliminary data gathering on each of the members of the company and searches for Pension […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 7, 2011
Another list of Civil War veterans has been located. This one is from Dalmatia, Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. In 1998, Dalmatia celebrated its bicentennial and Richard J. Martz and the Mahanoy and Mahantongo Historical and Preservation Society published a book entitled Dalmatia Pennsylvania: A Bicentennial History, 1798-1998. The origin of the name is […]
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