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.
Category: History
The short-lived story of Lebanon’s Upton Motor Company, early occupants of today’s Jubilee Ministries building
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
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
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
What does baseball great Babe Ruth have to do with Lebanon, Pennsylvania?
Where was the Good Samaritan Hospital’s first site in Lebanon?
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
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
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.
