Norman Gasbarro | February 17, 2011
Jonas Swab, son of Daniel Swab and Sally [Heller] Swab, was born 18 Mar 1843 in Washington Township, Dauphin County. He attended the schools in the township and worked on the farm of his father, whom he assisted in clearing the land of six or seven acres of timber. When he was eighteen years old […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 8, 2011
(Part 8 of 12). Contents of Volume VII of The Photographic History of the Civil War: Prisons and Hospitals. The year 1911 was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. In a memorial to the war, a ten volume set of books was published entitled The Photographic History of the Civil War. […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 8, 2010
During the Civil War, one railroad ran from the interior of the Lykens Valley area to the Susquehanna River. Believed to be completed in 1834, the line went from Millersburg to Lykens. Its primary use was to transport coal from the coal mines around Lykens to the Susquehanna River. Horses pulled the early coal cars […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 5, 2010
Along many of the lesser-traveled roads and bi-ways of the Lykens Valley are a fair number of small cemeteries. These cemeteries once were family burial plots on family land or were grave yards aside churches that have long ceased to exist. They are not marked by signs, or are not easily accessible. Previously mentioned was […]
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