Norman Gasbarro | December 1, 2011
The restored railroad station at Lykens Borough, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, is one of the last pieces of evidence that this small town was once a transportation center and the connecting point for two major eastern railroads, the Pennsylvania and the Reading. During the Civil War, the Reading line had not yet been completed to Lykens […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 25, 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 | November 15, 2011
OBITUARY LYKENS, 31 October 1902 — Daniel Israel of Wiconisco, who with his wife went to the home of their daughter, Mrs. Charlotte I. Stone, at Youngstown, Ohio., on the 9th of September last, with the hope of finding relief from asthma, from which he had been a sufferer for years, died at that place […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 14, 2011
Today, the blog post will begin 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 | October 29, 2011
The railroad station at Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, which was built about 1872, still stands today and is one of the oldest stations still in existence in central Pennsylvania. The tracks, which once ran through this borough, were torn up in the 1970s, and a street and parking lot exists where once there was […]
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