Centrally located, Clay and Concord townships today have much in common, but have quite different histories.
Quiet, steady growth in Clay Township
When Butler County was ...
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...
On April 17, 1819, a fledgling village that would soon be known as Harrisville opened its post office, signifying that the few buildings nestled in Butler County’s northw...
By 1830, the United States had changed dramatically from what it had looked like in 1776, and the decade set the scene for the massive westward expansion that started in ...
When delegates convened in Harrisburg on May 2, 1837, to revise Pennsylvania’ s constitution, the debates that followed would reshape voting rights, government structure ...
The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum
Address: 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro N.Y.
Phone: 315-308-1890
Open: 12 to 4 p.m Saturday and Sun...
John Augustus Roebling was born in Muhlausen, Kingdom of Prussia, a small-town northwest of Thuringia, Germany, on June 12, 1806. The town, which at one time boasted Joha...
The first farmers had to wrest cropland from the forests that covered Butler County using little more than primitive implements and their own strength.
It was called a “H...
