Paul Edward Angert is just one of 60 young men from the Butler area who sacrificed their lives during the war in southeast Asia. His name and those of 59 other heroes are...
Active-duty U.S. soldiers serving in Vietnam: 2.7 million
Total number of draftees: 1.9 million
Total U.S. military personnel: 9.1 million
U.S. soldiers killed: 58,220
U....
A casual observer might believe that Lancaster Township hasn’t changed much since its earliest European settlers arrive in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Early ...
Washington Township’s first settlers arrived soon after land grants were made available to Revolutionary War veterans.
According to “A Concise History of Butler County 18...
While the larger steelmakers saw the most upheaval in the 1970s, facing increasing competition from foreign makers and other structural issues, Armco in Butler County saw...
The first European settlers of Parker Township were some pretty tough characters.
“The hardships which the pioneers were obliged to undergo were great, and only men and ...
There had been rumors swirling about Butler’s Pullman-Standard plant for months. In December 1981, its entire 2,800-member work force was laid off. But Pullman-Standard h...
While much has changed in Clinton Township since its formation in the 1850s, a visitor would see echoes of its past.
The township, 23.8 square acres, was created in 1854 ...
The ground phase of Desert Storm, which ended Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s occupation of Kuwait in 1991, only lasted 100 hours. But the effects it had on some of the ...
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 ...
