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It’s impossible to know who the first person to discover oil on the banks of Oil Creek in Venango County was, because by the time settlers arrived, Native Americans had b...

Betsey Stivert Grossman must have been nervous when she agreed to accompany her husband, Benedict, upon his decision in 1797 to move their family from York County to the ...

Stephen Collins Foster was born on the Fourth of July 1826 — the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — in what’s now the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pit...

Worth Township was a relatively recent addition to the map of Butler County. It was created in 1855 and formed mostly from land taken from Muddy Creek Township and a smal...

Army Sgt. John Preston Donaldson of Butler, a Commissary Sergeant during the Civil War, was at the Village of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, when Confederate Ge...

Mounted on the wall of my home’s library hangs a wood framed shadow box holding the Civil War mementos from my great-grandfather’s time serving in the Union Army. One ke...

America may seem more divided today than ever, but the 1860s remind us the nation has endured much worse. It’s no exaggeration to say the American Civil War (1861-1865) w...

1862 explosion, largely overshadowed by the Battle of Antietam, killed 78

Few food companies have had a more lasting impact on American eating and buying habits than Pittsburgh’s own H.J. Heinz Company. By developing quality products and market...

A Second Industrial Revolution — driven by coal, steel, manufacturing and transportation — was rapidly building the nation. Fueled by the capital and vision of titans lik...