A million years ago, ice covered a portion of Pennsylvania, including what is today known as Marion Township. The glaciers melted and retreated, leaving many deposits beh...
It began in 1894 in one room on a block shared with stables and a fishmonger’s shop.
In its 131-year history, the Butler Area Public Library has undergone moves, renovat...
Few would disagree that one of the distinctive qualities of Connoquenessing Borough is its melodious name. But the modest town had been born in the 19th century as an ord...
Young Fred Awtey was barely able to catch his breath at the family home in the small hamlet of Jenner’s Crossroads located along the Lincoln Highway in the Laurel Highlan...
For years, visitors to the old VA Medical Center, 325 New Castle Road, were greeted by volunteer Abie Abraham, of Renfrew, as he worked at the outpatient entrance informa...
The story of why 60 young men from Allegheny, Westmoreland, Juniata and Cumberland counties first decided to settle in what is now Center Township may never be known.
But...
My father, David Howard Rosenblum, was born in New Castle, in Lawrence County, one of nine offspring of Samuel and Raye. They all settled in Butler and lived in a grand, ...
Biochemical engineer Carey Reams was a long way from his Orange County, Fla. home on New Year’s Day, 1945.
His World War II United States Army company had just been orde...
After John Gillespie Sr. came to what is today Donegal Township in 1796, he built a simple cabin and returned to his previous residence to retrieve his few worldly posses...
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 ...
