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J.C. Marsh House, Halifax, 1842

Nestled within Halifax Borough, the J.C. Marsh House has sat for 179 years. The name of this place coming from the respected local citizen J.C. Marsh, who owned the home from the late 1800s until the early 1900s. The prior owner(s) and the person who had the house built are all under speculation; though it likely belonged at one point to Wm. Bottomstone, as the Bottomstones and the Marshes were related. Evidence of the ownership of the building was provided by old deeds of the land and neighboring properties. All of which name this specific address as belonging to J.C. Marsh, followed by the Arnold and the Kluck families. Marsh was named in several articles from the Harrisburg Telegraph relating to his personal life and a charitable donation.  Harrisburg Telegraph May 3, 1919 Monday April 28, 1919. – J.C. Marsh spent Monday at Goldsboro, visiting Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Bottomstone.  June 27, 1914 Mrs. John C. Cunningham, of Sparrows Point, Md., is a guest at the home of her brothe...
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Shoe Factory Suspends Operation, 1897

Harrisburg Daily Independent. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. November 8, 1897. Shoe Factory Suspends Operation. The Halifax shoe factory has suspended operations, the firm, Messrs. Johnson & Bailey, having taken charge of a plant at Millersburg. It is said several parties are negotiating for the Halifax factory, and that before many weeks pass around the plant will likely resume again. Several of the employees have secured employment at shoe factories in this city and Carlisle.

J.C. Marsh House: Harrisburg Telegraph 10/10/14

An article from the Harrisburg Telegraph Saturday Evening October 10, 1914 Personal News Items From Nearby Towns in Central Pennsylvania Halifax. - Harry Miller was confined to his home several days this week- Mrs. J.S. Gemberling spent Tuesday at Sunbury – Charles Bair, of Washington D.C. spent Sunday with his aunt, Mrs. G.W. Westfall – Miss Helen Westfall, of Harrisburg, was home with her parents over Sunday. – Charles Bowers, of Highland Park, Philadelphia, spent Wednesday with J.C. Marsh – Otto Richter and Miss Edna Tilton, Atlantic City, N.J., are spending the week in town with his mother, Mrs. Carl Richter – Mrs. And Mrs. Edward Miller, of Millersburg, spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Valentine Harper. – Misses Marie and Winifred Smith spent Monday at Millersburg, the guest of friends – Miss Olive Nelson spent Sunday with friends at Harrisburg. – William Reinberger spent Sunday with his son, Henry E. Reinberger, and family, at Millersburg. – David W. Chu...

J.C. Marsh House: A Basement Find: Razor Company Letter

A Basement Find American Safety Razor Company A Division of Philip Morris Incorporated 100 Park Avenue, New York 17, New York March 21, 1963 Mr. James W. Arnold Box 411 Halifax, Pennsylvania Dear Mr. Arnold: We have the Pa1 Injector Razor which you fund unsatisfactory. We are sending this razor to our Quality Control Department where a thorough inspection will be made. Separately, we are sending you a new razor to replace the one you returned. We are confident that this razor will give you the utmost in shaving satisfaction, giving you the kind of shaves you have a right to expect. Since the Pa1 Injector Razor is manufactured with very close tolerances and under the most precise manufacturing methods, it is possible that something in the razor was ever so slightly out of adjustment. In a precision instrument such as this one the very smallest misalignment will cause malfunction. Thank you for returning the razor and for b...

Getting to know Halifax, PA

Getting to know Halifax, PA…. (A portion of an article from the 100 th Anniversary Edition of the) Halifax Gazette Halifax, Dauphin County, PA: July 1894 A CENTURY OF PROGRESS --------------------- General History of Halifax During the Past Hundred Years. --------------------- THE STORY OF ITS GROWTH --------------------- Facts and Reminiscences of the Town and the Men Who Helped to Make It Famous and Prosperous --------------------- The Founders of Halifax, so far as we have been able to ascertain, were not artists, but that they were men with a taste for the beautiful, is plainly manifest in their selection of a site for the town. No more appropriate spot could have been found on the shores of the river [the Susquehanna River] for hundreds of miles, than the gently declining hillside upon which Messrs Rise and Sheafer located their little city. The grade is just sufficient to secure admirable drainage and prevent any accumulation of filt...