"Children of the mine are they, born in the shadow of the culm heaps with the roar of the breakers ever in their ears, with mines beneath their feet."
A writer at the Lykens Register opined in September 1900 about rising inequality in the Coal Region.
Dr. Daniel E. Berney was severely wounded while evacuating wounded soldiers during the First World War.
"Three hundred miles of funeral processions, and the tears and groans that accompany these sad partings."
Shortly after the Battle of Antietam in 1862, the Lincoln administration faced a crisis on the home front in Pennsylvania.
As the Cold War heated up in the winter of 1951, the citizens of Hazleton, Pennsylvania had a radical idea to save themselves from nuclear war.
Soldiers from a company in the 96th Pennsylvania describe their experiences in the Battle of South Mountain in September 1862.
A writer and his friends rode the Reading Railroad to write a travel guide. They reached the end of the line in Williams Valley.
The Upper Dauphin Register describes the booming coal business in Wiconisco Township and predicts a bright future for its "inexhaustible mines."
The young soldiers of Company G, 96th Pennsylvania rode wagons from Lykens to Pottsville in September 1861.
