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...
As part of America250 — the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence coming up in 2026 — 11 students from Pennsylvania, and ...
The pressure from the water against the dam led to Glade Run Lake being drained in 2011, but pressure from a group of dedicated neighbors got the dam rebuilt and the lake...
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...
Benjamin Franklin Museum
Address: 317 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Phone: 215-965-2305
Open: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
Of note: The Benjamin Franklin Muse...
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....
Welcome to the decade of the 2010s, a period of environmental disaster, unthinkable violence and protests fueled by social media.
More than a million Americans assembled ...
With oil reserves drying up a century ago and a declining population since the 1990s, Evans City is at a crossroads for opportunity, according to Evans City Borough Counc...
Welcome to the 2020s, a period of escalating global conflict, artificial intelligence, surging migration at the southern border and a pandemic of epic proportion.
But wel...
For more than 150 years, oil has been flowing through the veins of Butler County.
Karns City and Petrolia, two neighboring towns in northeastern Butler County, serve as l...