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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
Welcome to the 1970s, a strange mélange of grimy New York City streets, the hardscrabble blue-collar strength of union families in declining steel towns, and a countercul...
November 12, 2024 America 250
It all started without cell phones, minivans or Chicken McNuggets. But Americans would soon have all of these—along with CDs, shoulder pads and Friday nights at the local...
October 08, 2024 America 250
OMG, it’s the 1990s, a decade of relative peace and prosperity, grunge and hip-hop culture, and something called the “World Wide Web.” In New York’s Times Square, reveler...
September 10, 2024 America 250
Americans had been waiting 18 years to fulfill Prince’s mandate to “party like it’s 1999,” and that they did. Twenty-four hours of coordinated festivities marked the new ...
August 13, 2024 America 250
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Keystone Highlights
Despite what they said at the Dew Drop Inn, Nick Perry always maintained he’d had nothing to do with what would become known as the Triple Six Fix. Perry, a longtime Pitt...
October 08, 2024 America 250
An error in judgment during what should have been a routine flight in April 1991 took the lives of seven, including a senator at the height of his political career. Sen. ...
September 10, 2024 America 250
It's quite literally the stuff of nightmares — you are trapped underground, in the dark, in the cold, and water is rising all around you. For the nine men who found thems...
August 13, 2024 America 250
It took a little horse trading to get casinos into Pennsylvania. The original 2004 law that created casinos in the state was The Race Horse Development And Gaming Act. Ga...
July 08, 2024 America 250
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County Times
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...
November 12, 2024 America 250
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...
November 12, 2024 America 250
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 ...
October 08, 2024 America 250
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...
October 08, 2024 America 250
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 ...
September 10, 2024 America 250
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Profiles of People
He was such a good player that the Baseball Writers’ Association of America changed its Hall of Fame rules after his death, to make sure he got in, but Roberto Clemente’s...
November 12, 2024 America 250
She was supposed to be the first teacher to go into space, but instead she because part of one of NASA's worst tragedies. The breakup of the Challenger space shuttle in J...
October 08, 2024 America 250
Butler graduate Bill Hohn needed the confidence to make important calls during his time as a Major League Baseball umpire. The difference between right and wrong comes do...
September 10, 2024 America 250
For 100 years, visitors to the South Cemetery on top of South Main Street in Butler have walked past an unassuming, rectangular gravestone chiseled with only the name Geo...
August 13, 2024 America 250
The history of “Hamilton: An American Musical,” appropriately enough, is something of a melting pot. The obvious origin was in the 1750s on the Caribbean island of Nevis....
July 08, 2024 America 250
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Experience History
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
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Address: 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, N.Y. Phone: 800-337-8474 Open: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily ...
February 13, 2024 America 250
DeBence Antique Music World Address: 1261 Liberty St., Franklin, Pa. Phone: 814-432-8350 Open: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m Tuesday through Saturday and 12:30 to 4 ...
January 09, 2024 America 250
The National Christmas Center Address: 1 Hollinger Lane, Elizabethtown, Pa.; shuttle services at 48 Industrial Road, Elizabethtown Phone: 717-902-9791 O...
December 12, 2023 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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