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Moravians - Mrs. Lusch's Class' Turn - Post 2 of 4
Today you will read the second of four posts written by my students about the early colonial period from the Walking Purchase of 1737 up to the end of the French and Indian War here in Carbon County....
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Moravians - Mr. Knappenberger's Class' Turn - Post 3 of 4
Mr. Knappenberger’s Class:Part 1A – The Walking Purchase by Alison MillerPart 1 The Walking PurchaseBy: Alison Miller In 1682 the Delaware Indians agreed to sell William Penn a track of land....
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Moravians - My Homeroom's Turn Post 4 of 4
Part 1 - Early Settlement & the Walking Purchase by Tia Tyson On March 4, 1681, William Penn was granted a charter by Charles II to wilderness land in America. The King of...
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Memorial Day at Ss Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Cemetery - 27 May 2013
Below you will find my remarks from Ss Peter and Paul Cemetery on Monday 27 May 2013 in honor of Memorial Day. It was my honor to piece together these snippets of history on the men and women who...
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Part 3 of 3: Randy Rabenold and the Bulldogs Who Went to War
The Complete Trench Art of Randy RabenoldRandy Rabenold and the Bulldogs - Part ONERandy Rabenold and the Bulldogs - Part TWOMemorial Day Speech dedicated to the "Bulldogs" at LAMS - May 2013One of...
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Ancient Mariners - The Sea Turtles of Melbourne at the Archie Carr National...
On our recent visit to Melbourne Florida (to help our son move into his apartment) we once again stayed at a private beach house within an area known as the "Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge."Some...
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Mauch Chunk’s Plague Year and the Linderman Brothers - Love and Peril in Our...
It can be said that the Lehigh Canal and Asa Packer’s Lehigh Valley Railroad brought cholera to Carbon County in 1854. It could be told that cholera helped bring Garrett Brodhead Linderman here, who...
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Dr. Joseph Kuder's Sanitary View of Lehighton in 1916
The Kuder and Langkamer families of Lehighton, starting with the Reverend John H. and wife Rebecca (Fink) Kuder and G. Charles and Emma (possibly Koch) Langkamer, have placed many gifts at the feet of...
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The Soul of Beisel's Christmas Tree Hill (And it's Unionizing Attempts)
A July 2010 Story on the 60th Anniversary of Beisel's Christmas Tree HillBeisel's Christmas Tree Hill Official WebsiteThe word 'soul-mate' gets a lot of use. Many times it gets mis-applied,...
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Typhoid and Toilet Slops
Typhoid could hit you when you least expected it. Sources came from places like the Baer Silk Mill shown here. This 1916-era postcard was included in the Kuder report. The roadway overlooks the...
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Blakslee's Trolleys
There were maimings, be-headings, and even a murder cover-up along the trolley line between Mauch Chunk and Lehighton...For a brief time, the Lehighton and Carbon County area was served by an...
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Lehighton's Colonial Court Mansion from the Pan Am Expo of 1901
THERE HAS BEEN A MAJOR SETBACK IN THIS POST - PLEASE STOP BACK BY FRI 1/10/13 - PICTURES WERE LOST AND NEED TO BE RELOADED..SORRY AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE - RJROriginally built in 1901 at the...
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From Buffalo to Lehighton: Snyder's Colonial Court Mansion
The Colonial Court Mansion has intrigued many, mainly due to its high-colonial style and partly due to its mysteriously short life here in Lehighton. It once stood near the site of the assassination...
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Connecting the Dots of Lehighton Business Post 1: The Maria Culton Empire
When discussing turn of the century business, most of the talk usually focuses on the accomplishments of men. Seldom and few opportunities existed for most women in those days. Most often than not,...
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Post Two: Lehighton's Vibrant Business Moves Forward
Lehighton’s growing and prosperous industrial age population fed a vibrant downtown business atmosphere. The Packerton Car repair shops employed 762 men in 1901. This number was augmented by the...
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Ode to Spring: Moonshine and Horseradish, the life and wisdom of Joyce Gaumer
There’s a certain constancy that lingers here, in pockets of woods and runs, in places where time is trapped in the ticking calls of the chickadee above gurgling springs, where kingfishers work the...
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Carbon's Most Desolate Place: Penn Haven Junction...the story of Reds O'Donnell
The area around what is known as Penn Haven Junction was called “one of the most desolate places in Carbon County” in a 1905 newspaper account. A visit there today reveals that little has changed in...
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Ups and Downs, Breaths In, Breaths Out in Carbon County - A writer in repose
Fall is certainly my favorite time of year to be in.But Spring is the season that is hoped for. On the tails of this Winter, it was yearned for.At long last, in the past fourteen days, Spring finally...
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The Rails of Penn Haven: Sorrow, Death and Ruin
Awareness. Taking everything in. Then, in a flash of time, a lapse of focus, it’s all set and you’re all in.The accounts are full of people who, failed to recognize the situation that would cost them...
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Monet Still-life in Real-life: Springtime comes to Kemmerer Park
Considering what Kemmerer Park once was, taking in its beauty today makes the progress there even more commendable.Click here for a post here at CultureCarbonCounty for a story and more pictures of the...
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