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Category: History

The true crime story that made Lebanon famous around the world: The Blue-Eyed Six, plotters of a murder 140 years ago

Avatarby Davis ShaverOctober 24, 2018April 19, 2020

The Lebanon Daily News was less than ten years old when Lebanon found itself amid the true crime story of the century, such a media sensation that it even inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to set a Sherlock Holmes story in Lebanon, PA.

The short-lived story of Lebanon’s Upton Motor Company, early occupants of today’s Jubilee Ministries building

Avatarby Davis ShaverOctober 23, 2018April 19, 2020

Often overlooked in Lebanon’s industrial past is Upton Motor Company, one of the earliest automobile manufacturers in America.

Nation’s first whiskey distillery was in Lebanon County, but today not much remains of site that Washington may have visited

Avatarby Davis ShaverOctober 10, 2018July 2, 2020

Did you know that America’s first distillery was in Lebanon County? The Shenk brothers began distilling whiskey in Schaefferstown.

The Paxton Boys, an early case of viral fake news witnessed from Lebanon’s Hebron Moravian Church

Avatarby Davis ShaverOctober 8, 2018April 19, 2020

Little-known today, the Paxton massacre occurred in December 1763 when a mob of settlers from Dauphin County murdered 20 unarmed Susquehannock Indians in Lancaster County. A new digital resource and a diary from Lebanon shed a different perspective on an pivotal event in early American history.

100 years since Babe Ruth played for Lebanon

Avatarby Davis ShaverSeptember 15, 2018September 25, 2020

What does baseball great Babe Ruth have to do with Lebanon, Pennsylvania?

Where was the Good Samaritan Hospital’s first site in Lebanon?

Avatarby Davis ShaverAugust 30, 2018April 19, 2020

Thanks to a Facebook post by Katoora Rohrer, we were reminded of a great piece of Lebanon history – 711 Chestnut Street.

Sinkholes, forever part of life in Central PA

Avatarby Davis ShaverAugust 15, 2018April 19, 2020

Growing up in Lebanon, one might think every family faced seasonal basement floods and the occasional neighborhood sinkhole.

Lebanon’s most amazing geological feature, next to a long-forgotten resort in Cold Springs

Avatarby Davis ShaverJuly 30, 2018April 19, 2020

The type of outcrop to inspire daydreams of giants and extraterrestrials, northern Lebanon’s Boxcar Rocks would be an outstanding geological feature in any locale.

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