This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Across the Keystone: possum, land grants, and old suit tales
A Jersey Shore motorman killed a large possum on Pine Creek bridge. Strausstown’s John E. Graeff reached Ainsworth after 1800 miles en route to land grants. West Chester notes iron from Isabella furnace helped Monitor plates. Other items cover a wild cat hunt, Halloween attire from Gettysburg gear, copperhead eggs found by William Killinger, Berks Dauphin Turnpike price, poultry show plans, Pennsylvanian Railroad retiree William Agnew, and career milestones through 1880.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Frantz
Jersey Shore
Pine Creek
John E. Graeff
Strausstown
Nebraska
Ainsworth
Horace B. Ivey
West Chester
Isabella
Chester County
Monitor
Ericsson
Merrimac
T. P. Bressler
Georges A. Tidlow
Lock Haven
Seootae
Hallowe’en
Gettysburg
William Killinger
Sugar Run
Clinton County
Berks and Dauphin Turnpike Company
Wernersville
Berks County
Lebanon County
Hummelstown
Dauphin County
Amerian Poultry Association
Harrisburg
Central Poultry Association
Kelker Street
Utility Poultry Department
Theodore Whitman
Pennsylvania State College
William Agnew
Oil City
Pennsylvania Railroad
Agnew
Titusville
Old Oil Creek
Chautauqua