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Local History By The Year
On This Day In Local History :
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Airplanes- 1996 - Flight 800, Carrying 21 From Montoursville
- 1986 A Plane Crashed On The Lock Haven Mountain, And It's Still There
- 1965 Crash of a Convair CV-440 Metropolitan in Williamsport
- 1959, Allegheny Airlines Flight 371 Crashed Into Bald Eagle Mountain
- 1954 An Airforce Plane Crashed Into a Muncy Home
- 1947 - When A Mini Cycline Crashed Two Planes At Selinsgrove Airport
- 1920 - The First Airplane to Land in Selinsgrove
- The Milton Airport
- The Lewisburg Airport
- The Sunbury Airport
- Amelia Earhart Unexpectedly Landed In Hughesville (and Sunbury Too)
- Pearl Harbor Joe - The first to spot the planes that bombed Pearl Harbor
- Will Rogers Landed In A Field In Beaver Springs - then wrote about it in the Saturday evening post
- The First Aviator To Fly Over Northumberland & Snyder Counties
- Jim Thorpe never visited Jim Thorpe PA, but he did stay in Hughesville!
- When a Lewisburg Boy Played For The Yankees
- H. Beam Piper - Science Fiction Author & Creator Of Lycoming College's Football Cannon Tradition
- Julia Collins wrote the first novel by an African American Woman, in Williamsport
- The Poetress Of The Confedereacy Was Born In Milton Pa
- Twain - When Mark Twain Came To Williamsport
- Mrs Bucknell Sailed On The Titanic & Lived To Tell About It (Not really an author, but her story as she told it is a book)
Bridges With History
- Covered Bridges (An Index Of Locations)
- The Lewisburg River Bridge Once Was a Covered Bridge
- The Shoemaker Covered Bridge & Mill
- When the Northumberland Covered Bridge Burned
Events
- A Time Line Of Local History
- 1778 - The Great Runaway
- When April 1st Was Moving Day. For Everyone In Pa.
- When Danville Had A Mummers Parade
- When Dewart Had A Fair
- In 1875, A Hot Air Balloon Came To Dewart
- When the Government Took Over Danville Steel For The War Effort
- Moving The Guyer Home From The "Dumb Built Circle" In Shamokin Dam
- When Milton Had A Fair
- When Dewart Had A Fair
- 1919 Welcome Home, Sunbury Supplement
Fires, Floods & Other Natural Disasters
- A Time Line Of The Fire Companies In Milton Pa
- 1817 Flood In Milton
- 1865 St Patricks Day Flood
- 1880 When All Of Milton Burned
- 1881 Watsontown Steam Tannery Fire
- The 1889 Flood In Milton
- The 1889 Flood In Williamsport
- 1900 - When A Load Of Hay Burnt Down 1/4 Of The Town Of Turbotville
- The 1904 Ice Flood In Danville, Catawissa, & Bloomsburg
- 1909 Lewisburg National Bank Fire
- 1909 - The Fire In Dewart
- When A Typhoid Outbreak Cancelled Geisingers Grand Opening Celebration
- 1919 Dewart Cylone (Tornado)
- 1919 When The Tornado Came To Dewart
- 1936 Flood In Milton
- 1941 - 5-5-5- The Dreisbach Hardware Fire in Lewisburg
- The 1957 Fire In Turbotville
- The Johnstown Flood Liquor Tax that we still pay today
- 1972 Hufnagle Park Was Named For A Man Attempting To Save Others
- 1972 - The Fire Before The Flood - Bull Run Inn & Campus Lanes
- 1985 - When A Tornado Ripped Through Out Valley
- 2004 Milton Flood
- When the Eighth Street School Burned in Watsontown
- When the Northumberland Covered Bridge Burned
- 1996 When 21 Montoursville Citizens Perished In An Airplane Crash
- The Blue Eyed Six - First Murder for Insurance Money
- Julia Collins wrote the first novel by an African American Woman, in Williamsport
- First 3 Wire Electric Light - When Edison Came To Our Valley - Sunbury, Shamokin, Mount Carmel & Turbotville
- First Steering Knuckle, Installed in Watsontown Pa
- The First To Run For President On The Prohibition Party Ticket Was From Lewisburg
- York PA - The Birthplace Of The United States Of America
- The First Aviator To Fly Over Northumberland & Snyder Counties
Food
- Boilo - A Coal Country Tradition (and recipe)
- Jacobs Confectionary In Danville
- The McClure Bean Soup (a tradition started by civil war soldiers)
- From the Red Arrow To The Arrowhead
- Trolley Car Diner In Milton
Forts
- Index - Where The Forts Once Stood
- Fort Augusta In Sunbury
- Fort Boone in Milton
- Fort Bosley in Washingtonville
- Fort Freeland near Watsontown
- The Residents Of Fort Freeland in 1779
- Mrs Durham was scalped while leaving Fort Freeland. She survived, and lived for another 50 years.
- History Of The Fort Freeland Society
- Archaeological Dig At Fort Freeland
- Fort Jenkins Bloomsburg
- Fort McClure in Bloomsburg
- Fort Rice - A Revolutionary Fort That Still Stands in Turbotville PA
- Fort Swartz in Milton
- Fort Titzel in New Columbia (probably not really a fort)
Holidays
- The 4th Of July in Danville
- The 4th Of July In Lewisburg 1836-1900
- The 4th Of July in Milton
- The 4th Of July In Sunbury 1824-1927
- The 4th Of July in Turbotville 1907-1917
- The 4th Of July in Washingtonville 1908
- The 4th Of July In Watsontown 1894-1918
- ACF, The American Car & Foundry, in Milton
- From Rough & Ready To TRW - The History of the Mills on Market & Railroad Streets in Danville Pa
- Industries Of Danville, Christmas 1928
- Milton Shoe Factory
- When the Government Took Over Danville Steel For The War Effort
- Wilson Walkies - Made In Watsontown (Cottage Industry)
- The Alvira Bunkers
- The Capitol Columns - Where Are They Now?
- Concrete City In Naticoke Pa
- The Dauphin Narrows Statue Of Liberty
- The David Stroud (Candy Merchant) Fountain in Danville
- Dewart Street Lamp Memorials
- French Azilum & The Marie Antoinette Overlook
- The Grampian Hills Cross in Williamsport
- The Hotel Edison in Sunbury
- Lava From Mt Etna At Zindel Park
- Montoursville Lime Kiln
- How a Motor from Sunbury High School Ended Up In The Smithsonian
- The Road Paved In Wood In Pittsburgh
- The Stone That James Pollock Carved In Milton
- Stahlman's Scripture Rocks
- Sunbury Retro-Spective App
- The U-Turn History Machines (Warrior Run Area)
- When Lewisburg Had Standpipes (So That's What Those Rocks Are By The Bridge!)
- The Whistlers Mother Statue In Ashland
- The Wi-Daagh Memorial In Antes Fort
- W.C.T.U Water Fountains
- Christopher Sholes, Inventor of the Typewriter
- Delong Memorial Hall - How A Hump In A Hook Made A Millionaire
- Edison Came To Danville
- Samuel B. McHenry from Bloomsburg
- The Invention Of The Price Tag - Wanamakers, Philadelphia
- When Edison Came To Our Valley - Sunbury, Shamokin, Mount Carmel & Turbotville
- Wilson Walkies - Made In Watsontown
- The Van Fleet Rose
Lumber History
- The Susquehanna Lumber Boom (The contraption that built Millionaires Row)
- The Raftsmans Riot Of 1857
- Rafting The River
- Woodhicks & Lumbering Camps
- The Legend Of Cherry Tree Joe - The Real Life Raftsman From Muncy Who May Have Inspired The Stories Of Paul Bunyan
Military
- The Alvira Bunkers
- The Battle of Fort Freeland
- Fort Rice - A Revolutionary Fort That Still Stands in Turbotville PA
- In Flanders Field - The Tradition of Wearing Poppies on Memorial Day
- George Washington's Bodyguard, Montgomery Pa
- It's A Wonderful Life - Jimmy Stewart, an Indiana PA native, suffered from PTSD when filming
- The LeRoy Massacre
- Pearl Harbor Joe - The first to spot the planes that bombed Pearl Harbor
- Remembering the Susquehanna Valley Men Who Died in The Spanish American War Of 1898
- The Poetress Of The Confedereacy Was Born In Milton Pa
- York PA - The Birthplace Of The United States Of America
- When the Government Took Over Danville Steel For The War Effort
Mills
- Dewart Street Lamp Memorials
- George Washington's Bodyguard, Montgomery Pa
- The John Brady Monument in Montandon
- Hufnagle Park Was Named For A Man Attempting To Save Others in the 72 Flood
- The LeRoy Massacre
- York PA - The Birthplace Of The United States Of America
Movie Theaters
- The Capitol Theater In Milton
- The Drive In Movie Theater On The Milton Island
- When There Was A Motion Picture Contest In Milton
- The Pike Drive In In Montgomery
- When The Silver Moon Drive In In Lewisburg Was Illegally Showing Moving Pictures On Sundays
- When Watsontown Had A Movie Theater
Murder & Mayhem
- The Gallows In Central Pennsylvania
- Allenwood - The Christmas Eve Murder in Allenwood
- Dewart - When The Bodies Were Discovered At The Dewart River Bridge (And that bizarre Houseknecht Mystery)
- Lewisburg - When 4 Inmates Crashed Through The Prison Gates & Held My Great Grandmother Hostage
- Mausdale - Mystery Of The Mine
- Milton - Murder In Milton, The Chalfont House
- Milton - 1916 Love Triangle Murder
- Montgomery - When Montgomery's Police Chief Was Killed By A Madman - 1938
- Montgomery - William Hummel, Lycoming County's Notorious Axe Murderer
- Sunbury - Cressinger, The Youngest To Be Executed in Pennsylvania
- Trevorton - When The German Fortune Tellers Were Murdered In Snyder County
- Watsontown- The Unsolved Murder Of Amos Ritter in Watsontown, 1897
- An Attempt To Understand the Molly Maguire Story
- Amelia Earhart Landed In Hughesville (and Sunbury Too)
- Edison Came To Danville
- When Edison Came To Our Valley - Sunbury, Shamokin, Mount Carmel & Turbotville
- Houdini Came To Williamsport To Expose Fake Mediums
- Jim Thorpe never visited Jim Thorpe PA, but he did stay in Hughesville!
- When Katherine Hepburn Vacationed Here
- Lionel Legares Mammoth Spiral Tower
- Will Rogers Landed In A Field In Beaver Springs - then wrote about it in the Saturday evening post
- Twain - When Mark Twain Visited Milton Pa
- Twain - When Mark Twain Came To Williamsport
- When Walt Whitman Came To Lewisburg
- When The Presidents Came To Fish In Lycoming County
Notable Residents
- George Washington's Bodyguard, Montgomery Pa
- It's A Wonderful Life - Jimmy Stewart, an Indiana PA native, suffered from PTSD when filming
- Mrs Bucknell Sailed On The Titanic & Lived To Tell About It
- Prohibitions First Presidential Candidate Was From Lewisburg
Parks (Including Amusement Parks)
- The Phoenix - The Rocket In San Antonio Rises From The Ashes to Become the Phoenix at Knoebels
- Lava From Mt Etna At Zindel Park
- Riverside Park - The Park The Trolley Built Between Milton & Watsontown
- Rolling Green Park - Hummels Wharf Pa
- The Park On Packers Island
Photo Tours:
Revolutionary War
- The Guyer House is moved from the "dumb-built circle" in Shamokin Dam
- The Hessian Soldier Found In Lycoming County
- Milton Silk Mill Worker Seeking 10,000 Husband
- Mrs Bucknell Sailed On The Titanic & Lived To Tell About It
- Stahlman's Scripture Rocks
- Wilkes Barres Millionaire For A Day Presents Statue To Milton
School Histories
Songwriters
- The Shoe - A Muncy / Montgomery High School Football Tradition
- Boilo - A Coal Country Tradition (and recipe)
- The McClure Bean Soup (a tradition started by civil war soldiers)
The Underground Railroad
- The Underground Railroad In Central Pa
- Charles Bell, The Escaped Slave Who Worked At Bucknell For 40 Years
- Hetherington House In Milton Pa
- The Stained Glass Window donated by The Underground Railroad Club in Williamsport
- Julia Collins, The First African American Author, Lived in Williamsport Pa
- When Frederick Douglas Spoke In Williamsport PA
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History For The Holidays
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New Years
- The Histories Behind The Unique Things That Drop On New Years Eve In Pa
- What Is A Mummer, And Why A Parade?
- Why Pork & Sauerkraut on New Years Day?
Easter
- The Bunny In The Window At Jacobs Confectionery
Memorial Day
Fourth Of July
Thanksgiving
Veterans Day
- From Armistice To Veterans Day - The History Of Thanking Those Who Served
- In Flanders Field - The Tradition of Wearing Poppies on Memorial Day
Christmas
- It's A Wonderful Life - Jimmy Stewart, an Indiana PA native, suffered from PTSD when filming
- The History Of Christmas Tree Lights
- Christmas Traditions Of The Past - As Published in Local Papers
- How A Small Town Band From York Pa Stole Christmas
- We Three Kings Was Written By A Williamsport Rector
- Winter Wonderland Was Written by A Honesdale Native
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Well done article on Julia Collins.
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