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...
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...
Clearfield Township’s name is a reminder that the first European colonists in the area were far from the first people to live here.
In 1798, when the area that would even...
As America pushed westward, old divisions over slavery deepened — setting the stage for Civil War.
America was halfway through its first full century as a free nation in ...
Butler County’s past lives on in more than historical markers and names on tombstones. Many institutions created over a century ago still exist in the county, if in alter...
