Lycoming County Women's History Project

03/29/2026

Stong women in Lycoming County!

You never know when a story is waiting for you — or where it will lead once you begin to follow it. Sometimes it arrives quietly, disguised as an ordinary afternoon. Sometimes it pulls you somewhere unexpected. It was a brittle February day, the kind when the cold settles deep into the bones and r...

03/11/2026

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The Lycoming County Women's History Project is an online archive of documents, photographs, and other material all about women who lived in Lycoming County.

02/22/2026

Due to the pending weather event, The Librarians Event at Lycoming College is postponed. We would rather you stay home and safe. Please keep watching this space for a new date.

02/07/2026

A member of the Audubon Society in high school, Sallly Foresman, Class of 1931, went on to get her Ph.D. in Ornithology from Cornell University.

She made us proud!

09/21/2025

The fight for women's right to vote!

09/21/2025

09/10/2025

Don't miss the program!

The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society will host a lecture by Amanda Owen at 2 p.m., Sept. 21. Owen is the executive director of the Justice Bell Foundation, a nonprofit organization located in Ardmore, in Delaware County. “Our mission is to educate, inspire and mobil...

08/03/2025

......Fun on the creek!

For more than 60 years, Girl Scout Camp Lycogis provided a place of adventure, learning, and community for countless girls. The camp’s history reflects the determination and hard work of the Lycoming County Girl Scouts. The origin of Camp Lycogis dates back to 1943, when the Girl Scouts purchased ...

03/29/2025

02/01/2025

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For immigrants to the United States to realize their dream of becoming citizens, they must both show proficiency in the English language and correctly answer multiple questions about the U.S. government. Since at least 1890, Williamsport has had classes for men and women to prepare them for the test...

12/21/2024

In her picture published in the April 3, 1963, edition of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, she is wearing a necklace made of pearls and a pair of horn-rimmed glasses and her hair is neatly coiffed. Two days prior to the publication date, on Wednesday, April 1, 1963, Flora Matthews, age 70, had received...