Norman Gasbarro | July 20, 2012
The above article describing the “fatal affair at Gratztown” appeared in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, 27 September 1856, described the death of George Hoffman Jr. at the annual military encampment at Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. A more extensive article appeared in a Schuylkill County publication, the Farmers and Miners Journal on the same date. It […]
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Norman Gasbarro | July 12, 2012
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
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Norman Gasbarro | July 11, 2012
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
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Norman Gasbarro | July 3, 2012
William H. Hawk (1844-1912) lived through the tragic death of his mother and of his son in addition to honorably serving in the Civil War in the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry and in the Veteran Reserve Corps. The record shows that he he was wounded at Gettysburg on 1 July 1863 and at the Wilderness on […]
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Norman Gasbarro | June 30, 2012
An 1862 map of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, by A. Pomeroy Publisher (1862) , Philadelphia, is available on-line through the web site of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg. An original copy of the map is available at the Pennsylvania State Archives. To access the web page for this map click here . The on-line […]
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