It was a custom back in the 1950's for many of us teens who were just beginning to learn the art of driving, along with a mysteriou...

  Here's a scene sure to warm the heart of any Trenton High attendee who ever performed or sat in the audience watching one of ...

How well I remember "Aircraft Spotters" during the very early years of WWII. To an 8 or 9 year old boy, those scary stories that...

As a boy of 9 back in 1942, it was a somewhat frightening thing when the area defense officials decided to perform area wide practice a...

It was March, 1951; time for our class trip to Washington in 2 buses. I was on bus 1 and as luck would have it, the girl of my dreams was ...

Yeah, Christmas was two months ago, but I just came upon this Christmas article I had written many years ago. A writer always has one or...

It took a bit of tweaking to bring this beautiful closeup of E. State Street looking west. The DeLuxe Diner, Moose Hall and Post Office (o...

How time has flown! Were it not for this Hamilton Township legend, there would be no Hamilton Township Public Library LOCAL HISTORY COLLE...

Did you know that North Olden Avenue once terminated at Princeton Avenue? In 1930 an "extension" was added at Princeton Avenue n...

100 Years from now, future area residents will seek out genealogical information on their relatives who lived back in the 20th century an...

As I have mentioned numerous times over the many years I have been mining for historic research, one of my favorite subjects is Mil...

As a licensed radio amateur, I have always been interested in radio. My army career with the super secret Army Security Agency had me usin...

One of the more fascinating subjects in our local history centers on the fabled "Swamp Angel" and of course the legendary Camp...

Remember Zorn's record shop? Back in the late 40's and 50's this was a teenage favorite source to buy the latest record on the...

How I love these full page features! Unfortunately they do not reproduce full size on Facebook due to the graphic size limitations of that...

1959: Movies were getting from television when this article was written. However, it is a really interesting look at the career of Mr. Coo...

As this is being posted the northeast U.S. is still cleaning up from a monster blizzard that hit the eastern seaboard and dropped massive ...

Here's a 1914 article dealing with the "old swimming hole" and playground at Sanhican Creek. This is from my "WEST END...

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One hundred and two years ago the Hermitage  area! This graphic is in my "WEST END" folder and produced herewith for history o...

Like many area residents, I was saddened to see that the legendary Trenton Central High School had to be done in. In my ignorance of the b...

It took a bit of time to bring all these graphics together and form a vignette of one of Trenton's more popular stores in Chambersburg...

These old clippings are truly a goldmine of interesting and little known history. Most historians will agree that old newspapers area an i...

"WIKIPEDIA defines progress: Evolutionary progress, the idea that there is a largest-scale trend in evolution of organisms and t...

I am no longer posting on my Hamilton High School class of 1951 CLASSMATES.COM pages. I find that the site is much too limited in bringin...

 This closeup view of E. State Street brings you within walking distance of the "five and dime" store that once lined E. State S...

Most presenters use Microsoft's "POWERPOINT" to compile an on screen presentation. Many years ago, indeed in the very earl...

This interesting article from the July 6, 1919 edition of the Trenton Times will prove to be of value to future researchers who are no...

Trenton was THE place to be on New Years Eve back in those dark days of the Great Depression. Few indeed were those Trenton area resi...

This 110 year old editorial is fraught with words of wisdom for those of us who are of the Christian faith.Read it and you will find your ...

This would have been a page that grandmother and grandfather would have read in the Trenton Evening Times of 100 years ago. How fascinatin...

  This is one of the very interesting and little known grammar schools that were located in various areas in the rural township of Hamil...

One of the wonderful aspects of researching local history is uncovering long forgotten and in many cases little known features that were i...

This is an interesting photo of rural Hamilton Township in the years before our population exploded into the megalopolis we have today. Th...

I found this map in an old scrapbook that has been reposing quietly in the many, many historical photos, articles and digitized docume...