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MARS — Not even a fierce thunderstorm over Butler County could prevent the borough from celebrating the country’s 250th anniversary. On Saturday evening, the sky eventual...

ZELIENOPLE — Zelienople's decades-long Fourth of July parade tradition took on new meaning Saturday, as the borough joined in celebrating America's 250th birthday. Kathy ...

This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...

ZELIENOPLE — The borough welcomed the traveling Tomb of the Unknown Soldier back to the Four Corners Park for the Fourth of July weekend to commemorate every service memb...

CRANBERRY TWP — The Butler County Symphony Orchestra took Cranberry Township’s Concert in the Park through America’s patriotic musical history Thursday evening as a kicko...

Permanent British settlement in North America started in the first decades of the 1600s and expanded in fits and starts over the next century, until eventually, the 13 or...

This article was originally published April 5, 2021, in the Butler Eagle. Butler County has evolved and most definitely grown since its creation March 12, 1800. At t...

There is some mystery as to who were the original inhabitants of Butler County in precolonial times. Although many Native American tribes had visited and lived in the are...

Although the Julian calendar was still used by Britain and its colonies at the time, Benjamin Franklin was born and baptized on Sunday, Jan. 17, 1706 (the Georgian calend...

76 acres that now make up Main Street sold in 1803