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The Author must pause to remind you that the bigger por- tion of all that is said of and seen of Gratz Fair is nothing more than the results of one who has the affair at heart and who is largely responsible for its present day success, this one is none other than Mr. Harry Smith, who at the critical time came to the front and not only saved it from oblivion but better still, · made it greater than ever before.
When Mr. Smith organized the company in 1906 the diree- tors were :
Mr. Harry Smith, . Gratz, Pa.
J. J. Coleman, Gratz, Pa.
M. A. Hartman, . Gratz, Pa.
J. W. Phillips, Gratz, Pa.
Lewis Hoffman, Gratz, Pa.
Jonathan Smeltz, Gratz, Pa.
Rueben Stiely, Gratz, Pa.
P. J. Artz, Gratz, Pa.
D. S. Artz, Gratz, Pa.
A. C. Artz. Gratz, Pa.
William Heekler, . Lykens, Pa.
Dr. A. B. Longshore. Herndon, Pa.
Maleolm Stewart, Williamstown, Pa.
D. Edgar Rank, Williamstown, Pa.
Aaron Daniels, . Gratz, Pa.
George Eby, Lykens, Pa.
Dr. W. E. Lebo, . Gratz, Pa.
W. O. Rogers, Gratz, Pa.
John Geist,
Williamstown, Pa.
Abe Gross,
Gratz, Pa.
D. S. Klinger, Gratz, Pa.
This company was organized and chartered, and the stock was sold throughout the entirety of the Lykens-Williams Val- ley, to name the stockholders here would require too much space. The illustrations accompanying this article speak well for the fair grounds. These pictures were made June 21st. 1922, by Mr. Ed. Smink, of Lykens, Pa. You will note that at this date we were able to have three training horses line up on
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Scene on Main Part of Race Track Showing Judge's Stand, Grand Stand and Portion of the Field Looking West
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Showing Lower Section of Track With View of Exhibition Buildings, Looking East
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two of the exposures. There is not possibly a week goes by but that there are some horses, cither local in the valley or from some removed city, training on the track.
The present Officers and Directors are as follows:
OFFICERS
President, Harry Smith
Vice-President, Harvey Miller
Cor. Secretary, Guy Klinger
Recording Secretary, Darius J. Wiest
Supt. Poultry Dept., A. W. Klinger
Supt. Fruit Honse, . .U. H. Daniel
Supt. Implement Dept., .... W. E. Brosious
DIRECTORS
Harry Smith Wm. Hechler
Harvey Miller
A. E. Willier
Jos. Landenslager M. E. Klinger
Darius J. Wiest Amos Hartman
J. E. A. Moyer Allen Hartman
J. W. Phillips W. E. Brosious
W. O. Leitzel Chas. Hartman
Daniel Kebach
U. H. Daniel
Guy R. Klinger
Goe. W. Eby
John E. Geist
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MRS. DANIEL MILLER
Wife of the founder of Millersburg
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HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF MILLERSBURG
Millsburg borough is situated on the Susquehanna River, at the confluence of the Wieoniseo Creek, twenty three miles north of Harrisburg, on the Northern Central and Lykens Val- ley Branch Rail Roads. The place was settled some years prior to the time it was laid out. It derived its name from Daniel Miller and John Miller, who emigrated from Lancaster County about 1790. They took up some four hundred aeres of land and began a settlement. It was laid by Daniel Miller into lots in July 1807, and incorporated into a borough April 8, 1850 from which time its progress has been rapid. Daniel Miller died in October 1828, leaving one child, Mary, who on the 11th day of February, 1838, married George W. Bowers.
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The first settlers in this region known as "Lykens Valley," were French Huguenots and Germans. Franeis Jacques or
Park on Market Square, Millersburg
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"Jacobs," Commonly known as "French Jacob," Larue or LaRoy, Shora, Sandoe, the Kleins, Werts, Steevers, Shutts,
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Ferrees, Millers, Andrew Lycans and John Rewalt are found among the earliest names of white men who settled in this see-
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tion. About the time Jolin and Daniel Miller settled here, "French Jacob" built his grist-mill on the north bank of the
Old Building on Present Brubaker Site
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Wiconisco Creek, just above the foot of Race Street, and near to which, sometime before, he had built his log cabin, then eon-
A Winter Scene in Market Square, Millersburg
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sidered quite a pretentious structure, large and strongly put together, and well provided with loop-holes-a sort of fort to
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which the settlers might fly for safety in case of attack from the Indians. Here was taught the first school kept by Daniel Miller
View of Cottage Hill, Millersburg
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the proprietor of the town. Neither cabin nor mill are longer to be seen. Domestic trouble had caused at an early date the
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. Photo by Noll Old Bridge across Wiconisco Creek, Millersburg
Lykens Valley R. R. Looking East from Balcony of Old Station
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owner "Jacobs" to remove forever from the spot. The place (mill and eabin) fell under the ban of superstition, several of the settlers having seen about it divers, strange and unearthly ,
Photo by Noll View of Millersburg Cemetery
appearances, "shapes, dire, dismal and horrible." Time and the spoilations of men have done their work, and the almost oblit- erated channel of the old head-race alone is seen to mark the
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Millersburg School House from 1825 to 1860-On present site of the Johnson-Baillie Shoe Factory
Northern Central Yard, looking south from Old Station at Millersburg (X denotes Old Style Switch)
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spot where once was the forest home of the old French Hugue- not. Upon a part of this land Daniel Miller, the then sole pro-
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prietor through Peter Williams his surveyor, laid out the town- lots in July 1807. These lots sold very readily, being drawn by
Market Street Looking North, Millersburg
Bird's-Eye-View of Millersburg from Berry's Mountain. Photo taken 1872
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Market Square, Millersburg, in 1872
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The Original Town of Millersburg-The old Miller house stands back
Northern Central R. R. Bridge at Millersburg. Now gone.
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Corner of Moore and Market Streets, Millersburg
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Residential Section, East Union Street, Millersburg
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P. R. R. Depot, Millersburg
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M. E. Church, Millersburg
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North Market Street, Millersburg
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Brubaker Building, from Center Street, Millersburg
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Park, Market Square
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Scene on Pine Street, Millersburg
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Photo by Noll Kepner Building, Market Street, Showing Post Office, Millersburg
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Reformed Church, Millersburg
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lottery, and soon the place assumed the importance of a rapidly growing and prosperous town. The town is regularly laid out, with spacious streets crossing each other at right angles.
Photo by Noll Lutheran Church, Center Street, Millersburg
and practical alley ways giving passage to the rear of each building. The Susquehanna River at this point is a mile in width, stretching away in lake-like form some three miles. from
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Berry's Mountain in the South to the Mahantango Mountain in the North, at which points, forcing its way through these
View of Present Bridge Across Wiconisoo Creek at Millersburg
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mountains much diminished in its bed, it hurriedly tumbles over rocks and pebbles of the passage, winding quickly out of sight.
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SOME OF THE PIONEER HOUSES OF MILLERSBURG The building in the center was built by Daniel Miller, founder of the town and was his home.
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The first school was taught in a log cabin or fort by Daniel Miller, the founder of the town, and he was succeeded by a Mrs. Miller. This fort was built about 1794 on the banks of the Wieonisco Creek as a place of safety from the surrounding In-
GEORGE M. BRUBAKER Who did a Great Deal for Millersburg
dians. The next school was built about 1812 or 1813, on I'nion Street, and was taught by a well educated German. This house was superseded by a poorly constructed brick building and that by a frame structure on middle Street. In 1833 a select school was taught by Mrs. Susan Barringer, a lady of considerable culture, who established a good educational sentiment. and was succeeded by Samuel MeYan, a man of scholastic abilities. About 1844 or 1845 the free-school system was adopted, after being defeated twice, as the town and township were at that time one school district. The most active school men of the
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town during these days were-Jacob Seal, Dr. Robert Auch- muty, David Link, Simon Wert, Adam Light, John Ebery, Ben- jamin Musser and Mathias Freck.
In 1846 there were in Millersburg about eighty dwellings, two stores, one mill and three churches. In 1850 it had five hundred population, which it doubled in 1860 and trebled in 1880, until now 1922 the population is 3000.
The Millersburg Herald (newspaper) was founded and es- tablished in January 1875 by J. B. Seal. It is a weekly family Journal, specially devoted to local news. It is a four page sheet and enjoys a large circulation. The paper is published today by Hay Bowman, and is called the Millersburg Sentinel.
The officers of the borough since its incorporation in 1850 have been-1850, Simon Wert; 1852, J. J. Bowman; 1853, Jacob Seal; 1855, Jacob Rothvon; 1857, Geo. M. Brubaker ; 1858, J L. Bomgardner; 1859, C. Penrose; 1862, Geo. Slate ; 1864, B. G. Steever; 1865, Simon Wert; 1867, A. Douden; 1870 Simon Wert; 1872, J. S. Musser; 1874, H. Frank; 1876, J. S. Musser ; 1879 B. G. Steever ; 1880, J. L. Freck.
The Literary Society was organized-1876; Trinity Re- formed Church. erected-1833; St. Pauls Lutheran Church erected-1856; Evangelical organized-1840, erected-1860; Methodist Episcopal Church erected-1858.
The First National Bank was organized Feb. 12, 1867, as the Lykens Valley Bank. The present building was erected in 1869.
The Millersburg Bank was organized in the fall of 1868.
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First National Bank Millersburg, Pa.
INCORPORATED 1875
Officers
A. G. BASHOAR, PRES.
C. P. POLK, VICE PRES.
J. W. HOFFMAN, CASHIER
Directors
A. G. BASHOAR, C. P. POLK,
LEVI WALBORN,
A. M. ROMBERGER, S. S. PICK,
L. M. SHEPP,
HOWARD HELWIG
CAPITAL $ 50,000.00
SURPLUS AND PROFITS $ 85,000.00
DEPOSITS $502,000.00
RESOURCES $700,000.00
"We want your patronage, our motto is Service"
This Bank is a Member of the Federal Reserve System
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Millersburg Baking Company
JOBE'S QUALITY BREAD AND FANCY CAKES
110 North Street Millersburg, Pa.
INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS
J. H. Rowe & Sons
MILLERSBURG, PA.
C. C. MCLAUGHLIN Billiard Parlors
SMOKERS' SUPPLIES Soft Drinks, Candy Russ Bros. Velvet Ice Cream
MARKET STREET MILLERSBURG, PA.
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SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER
THE "MILLERSBURG SENTINEL"
Established 1884
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING $1.50 THE YEAR
Try Us For Quality JOB PRINTING
HAY W. BOWMAN, Editor-Proprietor
Confectionery Supplies
Novelties
Watkins Candy Co. W. W. WATKINS, Proprietor WHOLESALE CONFECTIONS Distributors for Lowney's and Goss' Chocolates MILLERSBURG, PA.
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J. S. HECKERT Marble and Granite Works MILLERSBURG, PA.
Herbert N. Miller Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries MILLERSBURG, PA.
SOLE AGENT FOR FLORSHEIM SHOES
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Wiconisco Creek
A Scene Along Wiconisco Creek
HISTORY OF WICONISCO.
The 90th. section of an act of the General Assembly, passed July 2, 1839, Pamp. laws, Page 602, provides :
That that part of Lykens Township, in the County of Dauphin, North of lines to be run by the Supervisors of said Township, "Commencing at a bridge crossing the head of Sny- der's Mill Dam at the Mifflin Township line; thence east to the hand board in the forks of the road on the lands of Haldeman and Elder; tehnce a straight line to a house of Peter Rickert, at the foot of the Short Mountain; thence east along the foot of the mountain (north side) to the Schuylkill County line, shall hereafter form a separate Township and shall be called Wiconisco.
The early history of Wiconisco is embraced in that of the valley proper. The erection of this Township divested the old Township of Lykens of all its coal mining operations; all the collieries and coal beds now lying in this Wiconisco Township.
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The contiguity of the town of Lykens, however, to that of Wiconiseo Borough being less than one half a mile distant, still gives the former borough the prestige of being the business centre of the Susquehanna Collieries Company coal operations.
The enterprising town of Wiconiseo lies on the historieal stream and in the Township of the same name. It is located on a tract of forty eight acres of land sold in 1826 by George Pearce as executor of James Way. The condition of the sale being that the person purchasing the traet, should pay imme- diately after the sale, twenty five dollars as hand money. This
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Trolley Bridge, Wiconisco
forty eight acre tract was struck down to John Gilbert for twelve dollars. Mr. Pearee then demanded of Mr. Gilbert the twenty five dollars hand money, according to the conditions, which the latter would not pay and did not take the land. Then Daniel Hoffman agreed to take it, but according to the deed, he only paid twelve dollars after all. After Hoffman's death his heirs sold it for something like fifty dollars per aere. Henry Shaefer opened the first store in a small log house, in the year 1832. Another early settler was his brother Michael Shaefer, who died in November, 1849.
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The town was laid out in the year 1848 by Thomas Couch and Peter W. Shaefer. At about this time, Benjamin Garman, who kept store several years prior to 1848 removed it to Lykens. Wiconiseo is largely settled by miners, who with their families compose an industrious and thrifty elass of people. Lykens is separated from Wiconisco by the Wieonisco Creek. The Wicon- iseo Tanery was at one time the leading industrial plant of the town, and was owned by Geo. D. Moyer & son. This establish- ment, however, has some years back been completely destroyed by fire, and was never rebuilt.
View of Pottsville Street, Wiconisco, taken some years back
The Methodist Episcopal Church was erected in 1854; The Evangelical Association was organized in 1831 ; The Welsh Bab- tist Church was erected in the year 1865.
The number of houses in and about Wisconisco in 1864 was probably not twenty. A man by the name of Lance built the first house in Wiconiseo, where the Methodist Church now stands. Another house stood in the swamp, below the railroad, then ocenpied by a man named Wagner. Michael Shaeffer built the tavern. He never lived to take possession of it-died before
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Scene in Wiconisco, during Diamond Homecoming Celebration-P. O. S. of A. Arch at P. O. S. of A. Hall Looking East on Pottsville Street
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it was completed and was buried in the old graveyard near the company's stables. He first kept tavern in an old frame house near the dirt bank. Many of the first miners boarded with him. Behind the old breaker there were two houses-one occupied by M. Couch, the company's superintendent. Michael Shaeffer. with his brother Henry, came from Germany with their father when mere boys. It is thought from Hesse Darmstadt. An old block house near the company's stables was the Meeting house- Methodist. Mr. Shaeffer took the coal trucks down to Millers- burg with horses. The track began behind the old breaker. At that time "Shinplasters," were in vogue. The miners received no more than four dollars a week. Six dollars was considered very high wages. A man by the name of Frederic Alvord then received the highest wages, eight dollars per week, for black- smithing for the company. In the beginning the trucks were only driven once a week to Millersburg, in trains of eight or ten, drove only gangways then-no breasts. Mr. Bordner drove the first gangway of the Short Mountain mines. During the earlier mining period the men were paid only every three or four months.
Established 1868
S. H. MILLER, Manager
Samuel Miller ESTATE
GENERAL MERCHANDISE 54 years of Faithful Service WICONISCO, PA.
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W. H. KISSINGER AND COMPANY WICONISCO, PA.
THE STORE, that stands for a square deal for everybody- that has accumulated an increasing list of satisfied customers. that has been the Workingman's friend, having supplied his needs in adversity as well as pros- perity -- that for a number of years has supplied the mer- chandise needs of the people of Wiconisco and vicinity-
THIS STORE SOLICITS YOUR PATRONAGE
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HISTORY OF MIFFLIN TOWNSHIP AND BERRYSBURG.
MIFFLIN TOWNSHIP
At a Court of Quarter Sessions held the 22nd day of Oc- tober, 1818, an order was issued to three commissioners to in- quire into the propriety of dividing the townships of Upper Paxtang and Lykens, then embracing the whole of Lykens Valley, into three townships, as had been petitioned for by the inhabitants of said valley. The Commissioners reported that they were of opinion that the two aforesaid townships ought to be divided into three, and that they had accordingly run and marked the lines of division as follows to wit:
"The first township beginning at Mahantango Creek, a short distance below Miller's fording, on the old Sunbury road ; thence down the same to the river, and across said river to the month of West Mahantango Creek; thence down the western shore of the Susquehanna to a point opposite to Berry's Mountain ; thence by Halifax Township across said river and along the summit of said mountain five miles 200 perches to a chestnut-oak tree : thence north 71% west 6 miles 80 perches to the beginning, which we called Upper Paxtang Township. The second we have called Berry Township, beginning at the Chestnut-oak a- foresaid ; thence by the summit of Berry's Mountain aforesaid 4 miles 260 perches to a small Chestnut-oak; thence north 6 west 7 miles (through Hain's Gap) to Mahantango Creek afore- said ; thence down the same to the point aforesaid, near Miller's fording; thence by the line of Upper Paxtang aforesaid (re- versed) south 71% degrees east 6 east 80 perches to the beginn- ing. The third beginning at the same Chestnut-oak aforesaid ; thence along the summit of Berry's Mountain aforesaid 10 miles to the line of Schuylkill County; thence by the same 81/4 miles to Mahantango Creek aforesaid; thenee down the same to Berry Township aforesaid; thence by the same south 6 degrees east 7 miles to the beginning, and which we have called Lykens Township."
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This report was confirmed by the court March 12, 1819, except so far as the new or center division which the court ordered to be called Mifflin Township instead of Berry, as sug- gested by the commission. It was named for General and Gov- ernor Thomas Mifflin.
The Township is bounded on the north by Northumberland County, east by Lykens Township, south by Washington Town- ship, and on the west by Upper Paxtang Township. The Ma- hantango Mountains run the entire length of the upper part of the township, the Mahantango Creek, the Northumberland County boundary, being at the foot on the north side. The township is well watered and there are many fine productive farms. Much of the history of the township is identified with the history of the Lykens Valley proper; that which may have transpired during the eventful eras of the valleys existance will be found in other portions of this book. It contains two im- portant towns, Berrysburg and Uniontown. Berrysburg being the only one in the Lykens-Williams Valley.
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BERRYSBURG.
Berrysburg is situated on the road leading from Millers- burg through Lykens into Schuylkill County, thirty-five miles from Harrisburg. It was incorporated into a borough Dec. 14. 1869. The town was laid out by John Adams Heller, in Dec. 1819, who owned a large tract of land, including the present town and a farm adjoining, now the old Daniel Romburger property.
Heller was of a pioneer family in the valley, but removed, 1839 to Sugar Valley, and subsequently to Ohio. John Paul Jr. of Elizabethville surveyed the town for Heller, who called it Berrysburg, from the mountain named Berry's lying in the vieinity, but for many years it went by name of the proprie- tor.
A school was organized in Berrysburg about 1826. The different organized churches owned small tracts of land, from ten to twenty acres, on which a schoolhouse was erected, all one story with divisions, one part to be occupied by the teacher and his family and the other as a school-room. All the schools were taught in private houses except three, which were built by the citizens. The land in some cases was purchased for a few dollars and some donated, but in either instance only sufficient to erect the building. On a fixed day the inhabitants assemb- led at the place where the house was to be built, and some went felling trees, others to hauling logs, and the rest ereeted the house. The furniture was made of pine or oak boards nailed against the wall ; the benches made of slats.
The first Chief Burgess of Berrysburg was Jonathan Tobias 1870, and the first town clerk was Peter S. Bergstresser.
Berrysburg Seminary
This institution was organized about sixty-nine years ago. but in the lapse of time its building was sold to the town for public school purposes. On the reorganization in 1879 the sem-
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inary secured the property known as the town hall for its room. Nearly one-half of the teachers in the upper end of the county have been connected with this seminary at one time or other. It was built by Rev. H. S. Bosler, and its first teacher, in 1851, was Edward Witman. The seminary has long since been bandoned.
The Old Berrysburg Seminary-This Building no longer stands
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church was erected in 1791.
Union Salem Church of the Lutheran and Reformed Con- gregations was built in 1844, and rebuilt in 1873.
Evangelical Association .- This congregation was organized 1846, and the church edifice was erected the same year.
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Methodist Episcopal Church .- This church in 1866 was made a part of Millersburg and Berrysburg Circuit, and in 1870 of the cireuit composed of Berrysburg, Oakdale, and Cross- Roads. The latter was abandoned in 1877, but the church prop- erty at Oakdale is still owned.
The United Brethern have a large congregation and neat church in the western part of the township near the Paxtang line.
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ANDREW (LYCANS) LYKENS (From a Description)
The early pioneer of the valley and from whom Lykens Valley and Lykens town derive their names.
HISTORY OF LYKENS BOROUGH
The land where Lykens and part of Wiconisco now stands was owned by James Way, of Chester County, who died in the year 1825 before receiving a patent therefor from the State. His executor, George Pearee, obtained a patent for the land Feb. 2, 1826. and had it surveyed by Isaae Ferree and his son Joel B. Ferree. After the survey, the land was put up at public sale. The sale was held at the old (Good) mill at Loyalton. The condition of the sale was that at least twenty-five dollars payment in hand, must be made immediately after the sale.
The traet of 180 aeres on which the borough of Lykens now stands was struek down to Jane and Rachel Ferree for the sum of $65.97. The sale really was to their father, Isaae Ferree. But for prudential reasons he ordered the deed for this tract, made in the name of his two daughters, Jane and Rachel. Isaac Ferree, formerly owned a considerable amount of land in this section, and operated a powder-mill the products of which he sold all over the country. He brought the saltpetre from Phila- delphia by teams. Joel B. Ferree and his sisters subsequently
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laid out a town on this traet, and in honor of the early pioreer of the valley, Andrew Lyeans, called it Lykenstown, and the two sisters sold the lots for eleven dollars each. They were all numbered and drawn by lottery, and some hundred lots were thus drawn and sold. Upon these lots log houses were built by- William Zerby, Isaac Ferree, Martin Blum, Jacob Staley,
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Corner of Main and Market Streets. Picture taken 20 years ago.
Kate Bordner, Benjamin Drum, John Shehan and Patrick Martin, south of the railroad. The first log house however, was built . by Joel B. Ferree, in the lower part of the borough, in April, 1832. The stone work of which was done by Richard Nolan. (Richard Nolan Diary) This was the extent of Lykens in 1832.
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