The Park County Historical Society has sponsored a dinner and historic program in Hartsel, for the first time.
The June program about Sam Hartsel, founder of Hartsel, featured local historian and author Linda Bjorklund. At least fifty people attended the program June 18, at the Hartsel Community Center.
Sam Hartsel, born in 1834, left his Pennsylvania home at the age of fifteen years in 1849, the year gold was discovered in California.
The first Hartsels had arrived in the American colonies from Switzerland in 1735. Sam’s parents Jacob and Catherine were natives of Pennsylvania and knew William Penn.
