Today, Alameda Park is one of the largest municipal parks in Butler County. In the first part of the 20th century, however, Alameda Park was a very different pl...
MARS — Crowds gathered on Brickyard Road on Friday morning, May 24, for the chance to ride a miniature train in a circle for two minutes at a time. It was the o...
PENN TWP — Driving through Butler County, you may come across signs for “Washington’s Trail,” marking spots where George Washington set foot during his trip thr...
NORFOLK, Va. — Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new r...
What's now a pile of bricks at the corner of Center Avenue and South Cliff Street was once a bustling hotel, the childhood home of a Philadelphia Eagles executi...
In the Saturday evening, Aug. 4, 1973, edition of the Butler Eagle, the Page 1 article details a “canvas city of 22,000 wall-to-wall-tents” built to host upward...
BRADY TWP — The historically curious were able to travel back in time Sunday, July 9, to experience firsthand what it was like to learn in a one-room schoolhous...
Much like the upper deck of the Titanic on that fateful night of April 14, 1912, the First Responders Pavilion in Alameda Park was filled with people waiting to...
On Thursday the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission awarded more than $121,000 in grants to historical societies in Harmony and Zelienople. The money ...
The Butler High School Class of 1951 senior prom’s queen’s court is pictured at the event at the Castle Roller Rink. From left, junior class attendant Peggy Van...
Everyone knows the old saying — happy wife, happy life.
Bryan Frenchak, a former Butler resident who lives in Houston, purchased the Penn Theater in Butler and ...
ISLAMABAD — In flood-stricken Pakistan where an unprecedented monsoon season has killed hundreds of people, the rains now threaten a famed archeological site da...
When Foltz School let out for the last time nearly 60 years ago, it seemed the end of the one-room school era in Brady Township.
Little did anyone know, class w...
