The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office, a bureau of the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, is asking residents of Butler County and 20 other counties to suggest older and historical places for possible additions to Pennsylvania’s Historic Places Inventory.

The historic preservation office has added more than 7,500 properties in 17 counties to the Historic Places Inventory in the first year of a multiyear initiative to collect baseline survey information about thousands of older and historic places across a vast part of Pennsylvania that are underrepresented in the statewide inventory.

This inventory, which includes historic and archaeological resources representing 16,000 years of Pennsylvania history, is maintained in the Pennsylvania State Historic and Archaeological Resource Exchange (PA-SHARE).

In 2022 and 2023, the baseline survey initiative expects to add about 19,500 additional historic and archaeological resources in 35 counties.

The historic preservation office is asking residents who live and work in Butler, Venango, Lawrence, Crawford, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Delaware, Fayette, Greene, Lehigh, Luzerne, McKean, Montgomery, Northampton, Pike, Schuylkill, Warren, Washington, Wayne and Westmoreland counties to suggest older and historic places in their communities for the baseline survey.

Suggestions can be submitted through https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PASHPO_baseline_survey or via email to ra-bhpmail@pa.gov.

Survey teams will be in those counties beginning in April through early 2023. Baseline survey captures only basic information about the location and appearance of places that is visible from the public right-of-way.