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From postwar optimism to economic panic, westward expansion and political mudslinging, this decade reshaped the United States.

Walter Lowrie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Dec. 10, 1784, to John and Catherine (Cameron) Lowrie. He was the fourth of the couple’s six children. For many years, J...

Today, if it’s remembered at all, the Erie Canal is best known as the subject of a folk song, “Low Bridge Everybody Down” or “Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal.” But, accor...

Centrally located, Clay and Concord townships today have much in common, but have quite different histories. Quiet, steady growth in Clay Township When Butler County was ...

Starting in the summer of 1824, newspaper readers across the still young United States were gripped by nostalgia. Less than half a century earlier, names that continue to...

By 1830, the United States had changed dramatically from what it had looked like in 1776, and the decade set the scene for the massive westward expansion that started in ...

When delegates convened in Harrisburg on May 2, 1837, to revise Pennsylvania’ s constitution, the debates that followed would reshape voting rights, government structure ...

The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum Address: ​5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro N.Y. Phone: 315-308-1890 Open: 12 to 4 p.m Saturday and Sun...

John Augustus Roebling was born in Muhlausen, Kingdom of Prussia, a small-town northwest of Thuringia, Germany, on June 12, 1806. The town, which at one time boasted Joha...

The first farmers had to wrest cropland from the forests that covered Butler County using little more than primitive implements and their own strength. It was called a “H...