Norman Gasbarro | July 18, 2011
Old Methodist Cemetery is located west, just outside the borough streets of Berrysburg, traveling on Route 25 toward Millersburg. It’s on the right side and there is no clearly marked entrance. In fact, a sign on the only access road notes that the road is a private driveway and warns, “Do Not Enter.” Many Civil […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 17, 2011
Old maps from the Civil War era help to identify the locations of four cemeteries in and around Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. In the 1858 map shown above, the cemetery known today as “Peace Cemetery” is identified along North Main Street. One block west and one block south is the German Reformed and Lutheran Church […]
Norman Gasbarro | June 19, 2011
This is the second part in a series on Civil War Gratz. This post focuses on the first public school in Gratz which was on Lot #11. The 1862 map of Gratz has a space marked “S.H.” where the school house existed. Most records indicate that there was a free public school located on Lot […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 1, 2011
In July of 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation ordering a draft to raise five hundred thousand men for the Union army. It was the first compulsory draft in American history. The draft was intended to encourage enlistment, but in many cases it had the opposite effect. Federal troops had to be called out in […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 12, 2011
Yesterday, the first post on Civil War veterans from the Lykens Valley area with the Hoover name was presented. Today another veteran, Alfred Hoover (1815-1902) will be discussed. Copies of some of Alfred’s pension application papers are available at the Gratz Historical Society, so more information is available on him than many of the others […]
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