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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...

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...

One doesn’t think of Edgar Allan Poe as a Pennsylvanian, but the Boston, Massachusetts native did live in Philadelphia from 1838-1844. It was a time in which some observ...

Frontier medicine in the early settlement of Butler County was as rough-hewn as the log cabins of the early pioneers. The first settlers of the county spent hard, laborio...

Clearfield Township’s name is a reminder that the first European colonists in the area were far from the first people to live here. In 1798, when the area that would even...

One generation after the Declaration of Independence launched the democratic American experiment, the young nation appeared to be thriving in 1840. The United States popu...

As America pushed westward, old divisions over slavery deepened — setting the stage for Civil War. America was halfway through its first full century as a free nation in ...