Welcome to Dauphin County Pennsylvania
History and Genealogy

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Genealogy Trails History Group

Updated March 3, 2008

Welcome to Dauphin County Pennsylvania History and Genealogy, part of the Pennsylvania Trails and Genealogy Trails Project.  My name is Nancy Piper and our goal is to have available on line free of charge, all available information pertaining to the history of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  

Have something to add?  Please contact me at n.piper@mchsi.com

NOTE**  I do not live in Pennsylvania so personal research is not possible.  
The only data available is what I have online.

Harrisburg Pa. from Fort Harlington - 1906.

County History

History of Dauphin County. GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS. Volume III  (Pages 1-42f are now online)

Miscellaneous News Items

•  Trial and Escape of James Jameson (1807)
• Stranger dies from heat (1819)
• Fire at Conrad Bombach's (1819)
• Confession to the murder of Isaac Wills (1820)
•  James Peacock appointed Post Master of Harrisburg (1822)
• Alarming rate of dysentary in Hanover (1822)
• Murder Trial of Benjamin Stewart (1823)
• Execution of Benjamin Stewart (1824)
• Emanuel Cassell convicted of slander (1824)
• Samuel Miller's barn struck by lightning (1824)
• Building of the Union Canal (1827)
• Two Robbers Convicted (1840)
• Peddler tried to steal child (1882)
• Frank Lutz's eye tooth (1896)
• Senator Fox injured (1902)
• Man attacked housekeeper with razor (1906)
• Old violin worth $30,000 (1911)
• Body found at electric plant (1917)
•  MAN DEAD, WIFE SENSELESS MAKE FOR NEW MYSTERY  - Donated by Melissa Rodriguez (1922)
• Man breaks neck but not egg (1927)
• Two pound baby survived birth (1947)
• Farmer appeals fine to Supreme Court (1956)

 Disasters

• Six houses destroyed by fire in Harrisburg (1819)
• Two fires in Harrisburg (1823)
• Daniel Page's Large Barn burned (1858)
• Flood at Middletown (1862 )
• Accident at steel works in Steelton - nine seriously injured (two fatally)(1880 )
• Great Whiskey Fire - The Highspire Distillery Destroyed (1893)
• Severe Thunderstorm (1900 )
• Train Kills Ten Head of Cattle (1906)
• NEW!!  AUTO DROPS 40 FEET; TWO DEAD (Death of John C. H. Care and Thomas McClintock) - Donated by Patricia Hardenstine
• Severe Storm (1929)

Census

• 1790 Federal Census Harrisburg Township

Tax Lists

• 1749-1750 Assessment of the Taxables of the South End of Paxtang Township, Lancaster County
• 1749 Tax List for the North End of Paxtang
• 1751 Tax List - East End of Derry
• 1751 Tax List - West End of Derry
• 1751 Tax List - East End of Hanover
• 1751 Tax List - West End of Hanover
• 1769 Tax List - East End of Hanover (Includes Protest Letter)
• 1782 Middletown Tax List

Harrisburg

A Century Of Banking : May 9, 1814, The Harrisburg Bank, May 9, 1914 Harrisburg National Bank, Harrisburg, Pa.. (Wallace, Helen Bruce.. Harrisburg, Pa.. Harrisburg National Bank. 1914.) - Contains the history of the Harrisburg Bank with short history of the city of Harrisburg

Paxtang

  Members of the Paxtang Church in 1808 subscribing sums to repair the meeting house AND their age/dates of death

Lower Paxton Township

 The History of 6890 Jonestown Road, Lower Paxton Twp, Dauphin Co., Pa  (Donated by Jerry Radke)

Family Histories

These are family histories, webpages and stories for families originating in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

• The Cassell Family (My family history) 

Genealogical Data

• Births and Baptisms
• Marriages
• Wills and Probate
• Death Records  
• Obituaries and Death Notices:   Updated 01/12/08:  Death notice of Col. Samuel Meyers and Mrs. Walter Floody

**=Needs Adopted

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