Dauphin County | Wynning History

“A reign of terror” – A violent 1838 election riot provoked outrage in central Pennsylvania

Workmen on the Wiconisco Canal assaulted poll workers in Halifax, threw out votes, and started their own election.

The images reveal pictures of industry growing on the side of Big Lick Mountain in Upper Dauphin County after the Civil War.

Frank Israel left his home in Pennsylvania and didn't look back for 15 years. While he was away, he traveled the world.

Catherine Romberger Myers was born in Porter Township in 1840. She spoke to a reporter in 1931 about growing up in pre-industrial Williams Valley.

Sergeant Henry Keiser's diary reveals a soldier's perspective of the Civil War's dramatic final moments.

In 1906, a small valley in Pennsylvania's Coal Region caught a case of baseball fever. The towns were never the same again.

A newspaper correspondent details life in Lykens and Wiconisco in the months after the end of the Great War.

Private Edward Ditty trained for war with the 23rd Engineers and sought success as a boxer in the ranks.

"I pronounce this rebellion wicked," thundered John Chandler Gregg in a speech given in Wiconisco, Pennsylvania.

During the height of the 1918 influenza epidemic, the women of Central Pennsylvania jumped into action.