This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026.
Butler County comm...
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026.
District 50-1-01, ...
After the end of the Revolutionary War, Pennsylvania lawmakers found themselves in a bind: no money to pay the veterans of the conflict and vast tracts of land it had acq...
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...
