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...
ADAMS TWP — The township will hold two separate public hearings on Feb. 23, to allow residents input on two potential new township ordinances.
The first would add an amen...
ZELIENOPLE — Mary Hess wasn’t expecting any type of recognition when she stepped down from Zelienople council last September.
But many of her former colleagues had other ...
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...
For most of his life, 10-year-old Jackson “Jax” Ramirez, of Zelienople, has dreamed of doing what nearly all children of his age are able to do on a daily basis — to play...
Cranberry Township’s dining scene is set to expand in the coming months, with several new restaurants preparing to open along the township’s busiest commercial corridors....