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The history behind our great nation is a tapestry of stories about people who lived through landmark events, challenging times and amazing innovations.
America250: A Journey Through Time is a special publication designed to remember, celebrate and honor those pieces of our past as we prepare to mark the nation’s 250th birthday on July 4, 2026.
Each issue will include articles of national, state and county significance, profiles of people throughout the centuries and more.

The first 17 months will focus on slices of history and how events impacted the people who lived through those times. An added feature will show where readers can continue their own journeys through history at museums and historical attraction.
Starting in June 2024, America250: A Journey Through Time will examine the decades leading us back to the events that formed our nation. Data from the Census, which started in 1790, will assist in painting this portrait of America.

National Spotlight
President Herbert Hoover and first lady Lou Hoover hosted the traditional New Year’s Reception at the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1930. Covered extensively in the p...
March 11, 2025 America 250
The Washington, D.C., Evening Star reported Monday, Jan. 1, 1940, that “merry crowds” had gathered in the nation’s capital to greet the new year. They were in good spirit...
February 11, 2025 America 250
Welcome to the 1950s, a decade of prosperity and Pontiacs, drive-ins and tail fins, bobby socks and poodle skirts. The decade saw a big swing from big bands to rock’n’rol...
January 14, 2025 America 250
Welcome to the 1960s, a decade of sit-ins and teach-ins, hemlines that were getting shorter and hair that was getting longer, and laid-back family road trips, leading onw...
December 10, 2024 America 250
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Keystone Highlights
As America’s domestic industry transitioned from wartime to peacetime production following World War I, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company engineers were loo...
April 08, 2025 America 250
Folks growing up in Butler – really, any Western Pennsylvania city or town – likely have an amusement park memory they’ll never forget. Careening down the final drop on t...
March 11, 2025 America 250
Butler County brainchild takes the 1940s by storm
February 11, 2025 America 250
This year marks 70 years since the first polio vaccine was declared safe and effective, and more than 45 years since the disease was wiped out in the United States. A lar...
January 14, 2025 America 250
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County Times
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...
April 08, 2025 America 250
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...
April 08, 2025 Other Voices
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...
March 11, 2025 America 250
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...
March 11, 2025 America 250
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...
February 11, 2025 America 250
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Profiles of People
America has always loved its cowboys. Even before the frontier was declared closed in the late 19th century, people voraciously consumed dime novels that told fictional s...
April 08, 2025 America 250
Marian Anderson’s life was filled with moments where she was told “no” because of her race — but that didn’t stop her. Anderson was a Philadelphia native, born in the cit...
March 11, 2025 America 250
Hollywood’s leading man, a decorated war hero and Western Pennsylvania native
February 11, 2025 America 250
Arnold Palmer served three years in the U.S. Coast Guard, but that didn’t stop him from creating an army later in life. Later in life, Palmer would say the first time he ...
January 14, 2025 America 250
It has been decades since Mister Rogers first looked into the camera and asked us to be his neighbor, but time has not diminished the impact of his legacy. Fred knew some...
December 10, 2024 America 250
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Experience History
Radio and Television Museum Address: 2608 Mitchelville Road, Bowie, Md. Phone:301-390-1020 Open: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunda...
April 08, 2025 America 250
American Amusement Park Museum Address: Newville, Pa. Website: www.amusement park history.com Open: for private tours through the website Of note: Private museum dedicate...
March 11, 2025 America 250
USGA Golf Museum and Library Address: 77 Liberty Corner Road, Liberty Corner, N.J. Phone: 908-326-1908 Open: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m Tuesday through Sunday Of ...
January 14, 2025 America 250
Steelers Hall of Honor Museum Address: 100 Art Rooney Ave., Pittsburgh Phone: 412-697-7150 Open: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays Of Note: Loc...
November 12, 2024 America 250
Harmony Museum Address: 218 Mercer St., Harmony, Pa. Phone: 724-452-7341 Open: 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday Of Note: The museum, one o...
May 14, 2024 America 250
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Where To Go
Gathered here are suggestions where history can be experienced. Information included was gathered from the museums’ websites. Heinz History Center Address: 1212 Small...
July 11, 2023 America 250
Gathered here are places where history can be experienced. Information included was gathered from the museums’ websites. Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Address...
May 09, 2023 America 250
Gathered here are suggestions where history can be experienced. Information included was gathered from the musuems’ websites Heinz History Center Address: 1212 Small...
April 11, 2023 America 250
Gathered here are suggestions where history can be experienced. Information included was gathered from the museums’ websites. Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum ...
March 14, 2023 America 250
Cruiser Olympia Address: Independence Seaport Museum, 211 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd., Philadelphia Phone: 215-413-8655 Open: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except...
February 14, 2023 America 250
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