Portersville is mainly known for being the home of the sprawling Moraine State Park and its human-made Lake Arthur, both of which opened to the public in 1970.
Although ...
Many of them, like George Hepler, were born in Butler County, while others worked in the area, were visiting or were just passing through, but all of them risked their li...
What started as a way to ring in the new millennium using a name as a springboard, after 15 years became a way to highlight not just the borough of Mars but also its cele...
For 100 years, visitors to the South Cemetery on top of South Main Street in Butler have walked past an unassuming, rectangular gravestone chiseled with only the name Geo...
It's quite literally the stuff of nightmares — you are trapped underground, in the dark, in the cold, and water is rising all around you.
For the nine men who found thems...
As part of America250 — the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence coming up in 2026 — 11 students from Pennsylvania, and ...
The pressure from the water against the dam led to Glade Run Lake being drained in 2011, but pressure from a group of dedicated neighbors got the dam rebuilt and the lake...
It took a little horse trading to get casinos into Pennsylvania.
The original 2004 law that created casinos in the state was The Race Horse Development And Gaming Act.
Ga...
Benjamin Franklin Museum
Address: 317 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Phone: 215-965-2305
Open: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
Of note: The Benjamin Franklin Muse...
