Louis E. Hunsinger, Jr.
Louis Hunsinger Jr. is a freelance writer and historic researcher. He contributes to newspapers, as well as research journals. His areas of expertise include writing, researching, baseball, politics, popular culture, military history, and Lycoming County topics. A former writer with the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, he has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History. He has written several books on Minor League Baseball and regional history. His hobbies are reading and watching the Williamsport CrossCutters.
- Williamsport’s Baseball Heritage, Arcadia,
- Gateway to the Majors, Penn State Press,
- Williamsport: Boomtown on the Susquehanna, Arcadia
- Williamsport: Grit Photograph Collection, Arcadia
- Lycoming County’s Industrial Heritage, Arcadia
- Williamsport Sun-Gazette: A Pictorial History, Vol. 1-3
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Ten Hours or No Sawdust: Sawdust War of 1872
Sawdust riot. America in the 1870s was rife with labor strife and turbulence. The lumber camps and sawmills of the Williamsport area were no exception. In 1872, Williamsport’s “lumber boom” was in full flower and great fortunes were being made by a select few. Unfortunately, the great wealth did not make its way to the working men who helped to bring this great moneymaking resource to market.
Daniel Hughes: Giant of Freedom Road
Daniel Hughes The story of the Underground Railroad in Lycoming County contains many heroic and courageous persons but none towers over the story so literally and figuratively, as does Daniel Hughes. The Underground Railroad ran from the American South through the northeastern states to Canada from the 1790s until the Civil War. Lycoming County, because of its strategic location, was one of the most important stops on the
Spooky Lycoming County
Almost every area has its own ghostly and haunted tales. Lycoming County is no exception. Many of these spooky tales are steeped in local Native American legend and superstition. Even the area of the valley of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River has otherworldly aspects to it. The area once was known as Otzniachson, or area of the "people of the Demon's Den." Count Nikolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, an
Schools Through the Years
8-Square School was the first public school in Lycoming County Multi-million dollar physical plants, computer labs, swimming pools, gymnasiums and various bits of audiovisual equipment make a modern day school in Lycoming County a virtual palace of learning, but it wasn’t always this way. The first schools in Lycoming County had the humblest of origins. The first schoolhouse in Lycoming County was built in what is now Moreland
Lycoming County, Williamsport Firsts
Russell Tavern served as the first courthouse of Lycoming County, PA. According to historians, when founder Michael Ross surveyed the 111 acres that became Williamsport, he could not have imagined that his small community would grow from a one-building village to the county seat of Lycoming. During its first 100 years, the region experienced quite a few "memorable firsts." They include: * The first white man to
Williamsport streets paved with wood at one time
Peter Herdic Today we take for granted smoothly paved streets for our vehicles to safely travel on but it was not always so. For many years, before the advent of asphalt paved streets, streets could be a muddy, rutted horror, particularly in the spring and in the fall.One of the first attempts to change this in Williamsport occurred in the summer of 1868 when Peter Herdic, one of the