Nearly every great city has been impacted by a great fire.
Rome had the 64 A.D. fire that the Emperor Nero would try to blame on early Christians. London had the 1666 con...
It’s impossible to know who the first person to discover oil on the banks of Oil Creek in Venango County was, because by the time settlers arrived, Native Americans had b...
With its rich deposits of coal and iron ore and access to river transportation, Western Pennsylvania became the birthplace of the American steel industry. It also became ...
Few food companies have had a more lasting impact on American eating and buying habits than Pittsburgh’s own H.J. Heinz Company. By developing quality products and market...
1900-1909 was mining’s deadliest in the nation’s history
Many families in Pennsylvania have a similar story: a father, grandfather or great-grandfather who worked in the ...
As America’s domestic industry transitioned from wartime to peacetime production following World War I, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company engineers were loo...
Folks growing up in Butler – really, any Western Pennsylvania city or town – likely have an amusement park memory they’ll never forget. Careening down the final drop on t...
