Gramley Schoolhouse Museum

11/09/2025

Rebersburg PA...

Rebersburg PA - the St. Peter's Reformed Church - members of the congregation standing outside - dirt roads - a tall church steeple - building was sold in 2023 and is no longer a church...

11/09/2025

Rebersburg PA...

Rebersburg PA - June 7, 1950 - in St. Peter's Lutheran Church - the double wedding of two sisters - Hilda and Violet Walker - (on the left) Hilda (26) married George Brown and they lived in Jersey Shore where Hilda was a nurse - (on the right) Violet (28) married Eugene Zerby - they lived on a farm in Farmers Mills - they retired to a home in Spring Mills - the girls are the daughters of William D. and Alvena Esterline Walker of Rebersburg.

11/09/2025

Rebersburg PA...

Rebersburg PA - 1964 - Spring Bank - 531 Millheim Narrows Road - original barn burned August 23, 1953 - looking west from Pike Road area ...

This farm was the Ira & Blanche Shultz farm (1919-1942); Henry & Margaret Zerby farm (1942-1952); Dean & Irene Gephart farm (1952-1963); Tom & Jean Gilmore (1963-1970); Ammon & Sylvia Miller farm (1970-1990); Raymond & Mary Fisher...

11/09/2025

Rebersburg PA...

Rebersburg PA - 1964 - Spring Bank - 531 Millheim Narrows Road - original barn burned August 23, 1953...

This farm was the Ira & Blanche Shultz farm (1919-1942); Henry & Margaret Zerby farm (1942-1952); Dean & Irene Gephart farm (1952-1963); Tom & Jean Gilmore (1963-1970); Ammon & Sylvia Miller farm (1970-1990); Raymond & Mary Lapp...

11/09/2025

Rebersburg PA...

Rebersburg PA - 1954 - Miles Township High School Girls Softball Team...

Back row (L to R): Darryl Bierly – Palmer Bierly – Joan Boone Port – Sandra Bierly McGovern – Wanda Wilcox Bowersox – Cleo Smith Matter – Shirley Stover Burrell – Kay Breon – Patsy Brungart Van Horn – Donna Bierly Bowersox – Peggy Schade Dunn – Philip Meyer. Girls Kneeling: Yvonne Weber Smith, Connie Boone Masullo – Faye Breon Breon – Joyce Corman Thomson – Aida Mae Weagley – Janet Brungart Ishler. In front: Roger Bierly – Philip Meyer – Keith Bierly.

11/09/2025

Rebersburg PA...

Rebersburg PA - ca. 1930 - Claude Haines owned the store...

After Claude Haines. the store was owned by -- Robert Bierly (1931-1932); Harold "Wes"Hackenberg (1932-1941); Lee Vonada (1941-1944); Pete Reider managed the store for Lee. He was called into the military service in April 1944 and Lee sold the store; Paul Glasgow (1944-1990); Michael McCoy (1990-1995); David & Darlene Bierly (1995-2000); Bonnie Schaffer ran the store (2000-2010); (2010) End of Store. Building is now owned by the Amish.

11/09/2025

Rebersburg PA...

Rebersburg PA - ca. 1910 - Clarence and Sarah Jane "Sally" (Breon) Long had the hotel - Clarance (46) died at the hotel in 1917 - Ammon Hazel had a store in Coburn, moved to Rebersburg, and then moved to the diamond in Boalsburg...

11/09/2025

Rebersburg PA...

Rebersburg PA - ca. 1895 - inside St. Peter's Lutheran Church - following renovations including new windows...

11/09/2025

Rebersburg PA...

Rebersburg PA - 144 East Main Street - Dr. John Bright family - Dr. Bright's office was the small building beside the house...

Dr. Bright (1854-1922) was born in Aaronsburg in a house that stood in what is now the Salem Lutheran Cemetery.

Harry Ziegler was one of Dr. John Bright’s 1893 baby deliveries. Doc Bright was a German doctor who was acknowledged as the best typhoid fever doctor around the county, Harry Ziegler said. He nursed me and two of my brothers through the fever when we were all sick in the same bed at the same time. He came out everyday for weeks to see us where we lived at Wolf’s Store. Ziegler recalls standing with some of his boyhood cronies outside Doc Bright’s office watching while the physician sawed off a man’s hand by the flickering light of a coal oil lamp. It was Ammon Walker. He’s got his hand caught and mangled in a threshing machine.

11/02/2025

Rebersburg PA - Intersection of Main and Broad Streets - Henry Smull's blacksmith shop is on the left - later his son, Harry Smull, had the blacksmith shop - Harry was the blacksmith in the Joyce Kilmer CCC Camp on State Route 45 at the Union - Centre County Line.