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...
One generation after the Declaration of Independence launched the democratic American experiment, the young nation appeared to be thriving in 1840. The United States popu...
The Poe Museum
Address: 1914 E. Main St., Richmond, Va.
Phone: 804-648-5523
Open: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m Tuesday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m Sunday
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One doesn’t think of Edgar Allan Poe as a Pennsylvanian, but the Boston, Massachusetts native did live in Philadelphia from 1838-1844.
It was a time in which some observ...
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...
