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...
Betsey Stivert Grossman must have been nervous when she agreed to accompany her husband, Benedict, upon his decision in 1797 to move their family from York County to the ...
The Stephen Foster Museum
Address: 4301 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh
Phone: 412-624-4100
Open: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday
Of Note: The museum ...
Stephen Collins Foster was born on the Fourth of July 1826 — the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — in what’s now the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pit...
Worth Township was a relatively recent addition to the map of Butler County. It was created in 1855 and formed mostly from land taken from Muddy Creek Township and a smal...
Army Sgt. John Preston Donaldson of Butler, a Commissary Sergeant during the Civil War, was at the Village of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, when Confederate Ge...
Mounted on the wall of my home’s library hangs a wood framed shadow box holding the Civil War mementos from my great-grandfather’s time serving in the Union Army.
One ke...
The National Civil War Museum
Address: One Lincoln Circle, Harrisburg
Phone: 717-260-1861
Open: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday — Saturday; noon to 5 p.m. Sund...
America may seem more divided today than ever, but the 1860s remind us the nation has endured much worse.
It’s no exaggeration to say the American Civil War (1861-1865) w...
