If it had not been for lunch hour, more workers would have perished or been injured when the roof at the Lehigh Valley roundhouse in North Wilkes-Barre collapsed, killing one man on Oct. 20, 1908.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad passed just behind where the Ace store is now. This area of the town was known as “North LeRoy.” ...
In the early 1870s just about nobody in Allentown was more respected than banker William Blumer. But behind the scenes things ...