Buffalo Township was one of the four original townships when Butler County was formed in 1800, along with Slippery Rock, Connoquenessing, and Middlesex. The land that com...
The end of the Revolutionary War left American soldiers stuck with worthless money and the fledgling American government stuck with no treaty with the Native American tri...
Connoquenessing Township, as one of the largest and oldest communities in Butler County, has witnessed much of the county’s history. From farmhouses to schoolhouses, the ...
The first newspapers of Butler County were very different from what people today would think of as a newspaper.
According to “The Press and America” by Edwin Emery, early...
Starting in the summer of 1824, newspaper readers across the still young United States were gripped by nostalgia.
Less than half a century earlier, names that continue to...
Frontier medicine in the early settlement of Butler County was as rough-hewn as the log cabins of the early pioneers.
The first settlers of the county spent hard, laborio...
Clearfield Township’s name is a reminder that the first European colonists in the area were far from the first people to live here.
In 1798, when the area that would even...
Butler County’s past lives on in more than historical markers and names on tombstones. Many institutions created over a century ago still exist in the county, if in alter...
Betsey Stivert Grossman must have been nervous when she agreed to accompany her husband, Benedict, upon his decision in 1797 to move their family from York County to the ...
