Jersey Shore Historical Society

Name: Jersey Shore Historical Society
Address: 200 S. Main Street, Jersey Shore, PA, 17740, US
Telephone: (570) 398-1973

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We share the history of Jersey Shore , Pa. and the West Branch Valley. This page celebrates the rich history of Jersey Shore Pa. thru photographs.

The Society is dedicated to educating residents and visitors about "our town" and the surrounding area.

09/02/2026

“News of the Week of September 4, 1895, from The Jersey Shore Herald and The Jersey Shore Vidette.

Mrs. John Phlegar, of Nippenose Valley, died on Monday, aged about 49 years.

G.W. Clark, of Oriole, Nippenose Valley, died very suddenly on Tuesday evening at 8:30 o’clock, he had been complaining for several days. Aged 63 years.

Last Thursday Col. and Mrs. G.W. Crane gave a picnic party to a number of friends at Nippono Park.

Mick’s cigar factory is enjoying a boom. Twenty-two hands are now employed.

The Presbyterian congregation voted Saturday afternoon for free pews, and they will adopt the monthly envelope pay system.

Seven hundred and sixty-one cars of coal were delivered at this point by the Beech Creek Railroad on Saturday, August 24. The largest in the history of the road.

The Cammal and Black Forest railroad company is now doing a heavy lumbering business, and in order to reach other timber tracts, they will extend their road twelve miles further.

The eclipse of the moon occurred on Tuesday evening.

On Wednesday, Aug. 21, Rev. C.H. Campbell, pastor of the West Jersey Shore M.E. church, was married to Miss Sarah Larinda Ferguson, at the home of the bride’s parents in Canton.

Nelson E. Fiester, of this place, and Miss “Nan” Dougherty, of Safe Harbor, who were married at Wellsboro June 1, left Thursday for Atlantic City on their wedding trip.

A festival will be held at the Garman church in Pine Creek township on Friday and Saturday evenings, Sept. 13 and 14th, 1895.

F.D. Griffith will start a cash store in the room to be vacated by J.H. Messerly, the butcher.

Watch lost-A gold hunting watch case and chain, supposed to have been lost on Allegheny Street near R.H. Grier’s residence.

News from “Over the Mountain”.

K.K. Fiester & Son have put up a handsome monument for M.I. and Torrence Sallada in remembrance of their deceased mother.

The public schools are now in active operation.

Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. J. Nyce Slonaker entertained a large number of friends at their home on Main Street.

Andrew M. Smith, a farmer residing near Linden was found lying dead in his pig sty Sunday morning.

Friday-Odds and Ends and Out of Town news

08/31/2026

“News of the Week of September 4, 1895, from The Jersey Shore Herald and The Jersey Shore Vidette.

The last logs have been rafted out of the Williamsport boom and most of the sawmills will soon be shut down until another flood comes.

The Gaines oil well has now reached a depth of over 600 feet.

The Elk Tanning Company’s plant at Irvana was destroyed by fire a few nights ago.

A black substance which is supposed to be the outcropping of anthracite coal has been found in Nittany Valley.

The buyers of walnut logs are now operating in Centre County. The logs are being shipped to Germany.

Machinery is now being out into the new flouring mill of John Waltman near Linden.

Wednesday- Business, social and other news

08/28/2026

“News of the Week of August 28, 1895, from The Jersey Shore Herald and The Jersey Shore Vidette.

The forty-four stars now in the field of the American flag present a very jagged appearance. There does not seem to be any way to arrange them in equal rows; all sorts of forms and arrangements have been adopted by flag makers. No change can be made, however, until 1896, as the law requires that additional stars shall be added only on the Fourth of July succeeding the admission of new states. In all probability Utah and New Mexico will be admitted next winter, which will increase the stars in the filed to forty-six.

The fountain that the municipality of Geneva, Switzerland has recently established at the entrance of the port of that city is certainly the largest fountain in the world.

Vesuvius is active again. The crater of 1801 is rapidly filling, and a new cone, which is already sixty feet higher than the edge of the crater, is rising at the northwestern end.

A story about ice cream and a storm.

Vinegar is mentioned in the Egyptian records as a medicine in the tenth century, B.C.

How to rid the kitchen and dining room of flies.

The post office department has decided that a request to pay a bill can be sent on a postal card but it must not contain any threats or intimidation as to what will be done if the debt is not paid.

A novel way to weigh letters for mailing.

An article explaining the force of playing the piano.

Interesting news tid bits.

Lake Erie was named by the Iroquois Erike, from a fierce tribe living on its shores.

Monday-“News of the Week of September 4, 1895, from The Jersey Shore Herald and The Jersey Shore Vidette.

08/26/2026

“News of the Week of August 28, 1895, from The Jersey Shore Herald and The Jersey Shore Vidette.

Anyone who has a copy of the old plot of Jersey Shore borough, as laid out by William B. Smith, will confer a favor on the town council by making it known to them.

Miss Anna Q. Brenneman has purchased the millinery business of Mrs. E.D. Trump, on Main Street.

A game of baseball was played on the grounds on Monday afternoon between the Lock Haven club and the Jersey Shore club. Score 12-22 in favor of Lock Haven.

Thursday evening Miss Mamie Dravenstadt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dravenstadt, entertained a few of her young friends in honor of her fifteenth birthday at her home in the Third ward.

The residence of William Fritz in Watson Township was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday afternoon last.

One day last week Attorney J.W. Group, of Rauchtown, was attacked by a large Jersey bull.

Jersey Shore has a population of 3,500 and is still growing.

News from Larry’s Creek.

The new opera house project is a go.

An article on the need of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The public schools opened yesterday.

Daniel Strayer has purchased the stage line between Hoytville and Blackwell’s.

Miss Rosa Walcot will teach the Tomb’s Run school.

Abraham C. Welshans, Jacob Bricker and William Curts of Nippenose Valley were detected and arrested in the act of seining fish in the trout reserves of George L. Sanderson, at Millport, on Friday night.

Friday-Odds and Ends and Out of Town news

08/24/2026

“News of the Week of August 28, 1895, from The Jersey Shore Herald and The Jersey Shore Vidette.

The following is a list of letters remaining in the Jersey Shore post office for the week ending August 26, 1895: Edward Kohler, Jno. Shradle, Frank Simmons, H.B. Smith, Mr. Trunbon, Hugh Gibson, Sam M. Cartner, Mrs. Harry Grubb and Miss Maggie Bidell.

The well-known Penn’s Cave, near Spring Mills, Centre County, has been sold by the Long Bros. to Williamsport gentlemen, who will take possession April 1, 1896.

The Follmer Lutheran church, of Turbot Township, will celebrate its one hundredth anniversary on August 29th at 10 o’clock in the morning.

The Bloomsburg Council has granted the North Susquehanna Transit Company permission to construct an electric railway on the principal streets of that town.

According to game laws, gray, black and fox squirrels may be killed between September 1 and January 1 of any year.

A total eclipse of the moon will occur next month.

Residents of Franklin township, Huntingdon County, are planning to exhume the remains of Sanford Motherspaug, who recently committed su***de.

Wednesday- Sports, Business and Social news

08/21/2026

“News of the Week of August 21, 1895, from The Jersey Shore Herald and The Jersey Shore Vidette.

Fifty years ago, when a house on Dean Street, Soho, was being repaired, on removing a marble chimney piece in the front drawing room, four or five “visiting” cards were found, one with the name of Isaac Newton on it. The names were all written on the backs of common playing cards.

The grave of Eve is visited by over 40,000 pilgrims each year. The Arabs believe that Eve was the tallest woman that ever lived.

The final steps for the consolidation of the Lenox, Astor, and Tilden libraries in New York City have been concluded, and nothing remains to be done but to transfer the Tilden bequests.

Hungary has sent to our shores, 62,000 descendants of the followers of Atilla.

The Atlantic Ocean takes its name from Mount Atlas.

Mrs. Catherine Smead, who just died at Rochester, N.Y., at the age of 95, decorated the boat on which Lafayette witnessed the opening of the Erie Canal.

Beautiful specimens of the anchorite, or tourmaline, have been found in Maine and elsewhere in New England.

An article on the South’s industrial activity.

The inhabitants of St. Lucia have discovered a plant that grows in a cavern.

The water in the Strait of Gibraltar is 150 fathoms deep.

Monday- “News of the Week of August 28, 1895, from The Jersey Shore Herald and The Jersey Shore Vidette.

08/19/2026

“News of the Week of August 21, 1895, from The Jersey Shore Herald and The Jersey Shore Vidette.

Jennie, wife of John Ramser, died Saturday in Pine Creek Township.

A festival will be held at Phelps Chapel on Friday and Saturday evenings of next week.

The Sunday school of the Presbyterian church gave a pleasant reception on Tuesday evening to Mr. Hamilton B. Humes, who lately returned from a European trip.

The Beech Creek shop picnic was held at Ager’s Grove, at Mill Hall, on Saturday. Thurston’s Orchestra furnished the music.

N.P Blackwell is selling his farm in Piatt Township.

Conductor Bowan is the proud papa of a baby boy.

D.R. Britton is having a sale at his residence on Front Street.

Miss Jessie Curts and Guss Strauss of Crawford Township, were married last week in Elmira, N.Y.

The Fall Brook depot is being repainted on the outside.

A slight fire occurred Monday afternoon in a shed in the rear of the foundry.

J.W. Group and John Engler will test the winter turf oats. -Nippenose News
Tomb’s Run items.

J.W. Group has added a new cream separator to his farming equipment.

Friday- Odds and End and Out of Town news

08/17/2026

“News of the Week of August 21, 1895, from The Jersey Shore Herald and The Jersey Shore Vidette.

The following is a list of letters remaining in the Jersey Shore post office for the week ending August 19, 1895: Miss Eva Mayes and Henry Wheaton.

Lewistown has decided to celebrate its 100th anniversary, in two days, September 5 and 6.

The eleventh annual meeting of the Milton Driving Park and Fair Association will take place on the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th of September.

The Milton iron works have advanced the wages of the employees by ten percent.

The faculty of State college suspended the entire class of prospective juniors of the institution, consisting of fifty-one members, three are women. Some of the members of the class were accused of “cribbing”.

Prospectors on the Forkston Mountain, Sullivan County, have discovered a petrified oyster bed.

Interesting story from Wellsboro.

The Tyrone cigar dealers have agreed to stop selling ci**rs and to***co on Sunday.

The Driftwood Gazette says it is rumored that a railroad will be built from St. Mary’s to Port Allegheny via Smethport and Skinner Creek, to connect with the Coudersport and Port Allegheny railroad.

Wednesday- Social, Business and other news

08/14/2026

“News of the Week of August 14, 1895 from The Jersey Shore Herald and The Jersey Shore Vidette.

Kaiser Wilhelm is spending $1,500,000 on additions and improvements to his palace in Berlin, which will take seven years to complete.

Madame Bonaparte’s last days were spent in a quiet boarding house in Baltimore.
On April 4, 1879, Madame Bonaparte quietly passed away at the advanced age of 94.

It appears that the comparatively few losses to the Japanese troops in the Manchurian engagements in the recent war with China were not altogether due to bad marksmanship. As a means of protection against the cold the Japanese wore a quantity of floss silk under their outer clothing, and this acted more or les as a bullet proof shield.

In Russia, if a man marries an heiress, he gets no chance to own her money. There is no marriage settlement; she controls her property throughout her life.

Fashion styles.

An average freight car is guaranteed to run 50,000 miles; good cars often far exceed this guarantee.

The Russian military authorities have concluded that the sheepskin caps worn by soldiers are injurious to the eyesight and will put them in the helmets.

News tidbits

The government assay office at Helena Montana, is receiving a great deal of gold from the mines of the Northwest and lately has cast a brick eleven and a half inches long by five and one half inches wide and three and a half inches deep.

A ship in Genoa was launched three minutes early and could not be blessed by the priest or christened with the usual bottle of champagne.

An article on the benefits of sod houses.

Monday- “News of the Week of August 21, 1895 from The Jersey Shore Herald and The Jersey Shore Vidette.

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