Walter Lowrie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Dec. 10, 1784, to John and Catherine (Cameron) Lowrie. He was the fourth of the couple’s six children.
For many years, J...
Today, if it’s remembered at all, the Erie Canal is best known as the subject of a folk song, “Low Bridge Everybody Down” or “Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal.”
But, accor...
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 ...
