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Butler
County Historical Society
P.O. Box 414,
Butler, PA 16003-0414,
Phone 724-283-8116, fax 724-283-2505
Butler
County Historical Society collects,
preserves, and interprets Butler County’s rich heritage
for the educational benefit of the public. Visit us online at:
www.butlerhistory.com
For more information, please contact the
Society's office at 724-283-8116, Monday
through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. until
4:00 PM
Shaw House
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Cranberry Township
Historical Society
P.O. Box 1931,
Cranberry Twp., PA 16066,
Phone 724-776-3234
Please visit our BCTCB member, the Cranberry Township Historical Society. The CTHS will resume seasonal tours of the Sample One-room Schoolhouse on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 through Saturday, September 28, 2007. Regular hours of operation are Wednesday's from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm and on Saturday's from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm. The school can also be toured by special appointment. Refer to our website for details. We are located at 2525 Rochester Road, Cranberry Township, PA 16066 - next to the Municipal Center.
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Evans City Area Historical Society
204 C Jackson Street, Evans City, PA 16033,
Phone: 724-538-9846
The Evans City Area Historical Society features its very
own museum, containing artifacts and memorabilia of the
area’s oil boom and railroads.
Local
history museum includes oil boom, railroads. Seasonal.
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Historic Harmony Inc.
218 Mercer St., Harmony, PA 16037 [map] Phone: 724-452-7341, 888-821-4822
National
Historic Landmark District.
Washington visited an Indian village here and survived a
shooting during his 1753 mission that precipitated the
French & Indian War. In 1804 Harmony was founded as the
first home of the German
communal Harmony Society. Exhibits: Native Americans,
Washington, Harmonists, Mennonites, Charles Flowers longrifles, the oil era, Victoriana. Antiques, crafts,
shopping, dining, accommodations, family attractions,
state parks and other historic sites nearby!
The
Harmony Museum, established in 1955 and one of the
region's few history museums that operates all year,
is open 1-4 p.m. daily except Mondays and holidays.
Regular admission fees are $5 for adults and $2 for
children for a guided tour that includes three
historic buildings.
Visit us on the web at
www.harmonymuseum.org |
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Maridon
Museum
322 North McKean
Street, Butler, PA 16001 [map]
Phone: 724-282-0123
The Maridon opened on May 8th, 2004. It
is the only museum in the Western Pennsylvania region
with a specific focus on Chinese and Japanese art and
culture. The museum — both the objects and the buildings
that house them— is the gift of Mary Hulton Phillips. Located in
downtown Butler.
Visit them online at
www.maridon.org
Japanese Brush
Painting Classes.
Instructed by Laurie Bloomberg. Five beginner
classes on April 4, 11, 25 and May 2 and 9.
Members $13.00 per class. Non-members $15.00.
Materials are included. Space limited. Call for
reservations. |
Click
here to read a Pittsburgh Post Gazette article
about the Maridon Museum.
Click
here to read an BootsnAll Travel story
on the Maridon Museum by Zelda Wilbert
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Muddy Creek Oil Field
At Moraine State Park, Phone:
724-368-8811
Oil
Well Demonstrations- scheduled throughout the summer and
fall.
An original oil well site has been preserved
and restored within Moraine State Park. The mechanism is
powered by a one cylinder Bessemer gas engine now run on
propane which pulls the rod lines through a “Bessemer #2
Power” just like the old days.
Demonstrates oil production, interprets
area’s oil era. Seasonal. The
Moraine, McConnell’s Mill, Jennings Commission has
seasonal demonstration days at the Muddy Creek Oil Field
Site in Moraine State Park. The exhibit will be open to the
public and operating. Access to the well site can be
obtained by taking Old Route 422 west from the Prospect
interchange and proceeding about ½ mile beyond the DCNR
District Office and boat launch area parking lot.
For more information visit
click here. |
2008 Schedule:
Centennial Engine and Oil Pumping Machinery Operates
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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May 3 & 4
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July 5 & 6
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September 6 & 7
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Old Stone House
Phone: 724-794-4296
at the junctures of PA route 8, 528 and 173.
Reconstructed 1822 inn, tavern and stagecoach
stop Located along the Venango Trail. Owned by Slippery Rock University.
Displays
18th-19th century furniture, artifacts.
Open May - Oct., Saturdays 10am - 5PM, Sunday Noon -
5PM. Private Tours available by appointment.
School and group tours welcome. Special programs
throughout the season.
Visit the website at:
www.sru.edu
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Providence Plantation
300 Textor Hill Rd., Evans City, PA 16033
Phone: 724-538-8818
The Frontier
History Center at Providence Plantation enables you to experience
all five periods of our region’s remarkable 18th century
history. Through interaction with dramatic character interpreters
you participate in the experiences of people (Euroamerican,
Black, and Indian) who first created American independence and
democracy on the Ohio River Valley frontier.
Visit us online at:
www.frontier-history.org
Read the January 2007,
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Saxonburg Historical & Restoration Commission
P.O. Box 150, Saxonburg, PA 16056,
Phone: 724-352-3024
Saxonburg Museum, Roebling
Workshop Early history of Saxonburg and its founder
John Roebling, designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Seasonal.
Museum exhibits include Roeblings, communications,
blacksmith, general store, laundry.
John Roebling Workshop is the 1840 shop where
suspension bridge pioneer Roebling made first wire
cable is on National Register of Historic Places.
Restored by Saxonburg Historical and Restoration
Commission, open by appointment.
Click
Here to read a Pittsburgh Tribune article about
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The Succop Conservancy/Heritage School
185 West Airport Road, Butler, PA 16002 [map]
Phone: 724-586-2591Indulge your interests. Experience a
week long course. Immerse yourself in a time honored
craft or trade taught by master craftsmen. Nestled in
natural beauty on 50 acres in Penn Township, Heritage
School At The Conservancy offers relaxed learning for
adults in a tranquil, native environment.
Visit us online at:
http://www.heritagefolkschool.org/
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If you
are interested in Heritage School course offerings but
are unable to fit a week long course into your schedule,
try our fall friends special. We are offering a two-day
option for all Heritage School courses listed for
September through November. With a minimum four
students enrolled, you can take the two-day option, so
bring your friends and try out the courses listed on our
fall schedule.
Fall
courses include Blacksmithing, Woodworking, Eastern
Woodland Cooking, Folk Art Painting, Storytelling, Tea
and the Social Graces, Glass Mosaics, Civil War
Quilting, Native Dolls, Nature and Animal Pathways, Wall
Murals, 18th Century Writing, Acrylic
Painting, Beading, Canvas Floor Cloths, Writing and
Illustrating, Natural Dyes & Wild Teas, Stained Glass,
Native Style Drum, Wampum, Making Tools, Making Buckets,
Making Wheelbarrows, Making Benches, Making a Cradle and
Restoring a Hay Wagon. Most two-day options are Mondays
and Tuesdays. Call or email for details.
Ryan Stauffer is offering two-day options on
Knife Making in the Blacksmith Shop and David Hughes is
offering a two-day introduction to Silversmithing. Gerry
Hall is offering two-day Herb workshops in September and
early October. Call Nancy Lawry at The Conservancy for
details. |
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Zelienople
Historical Society
243 S. Main
St., Zelienople, PA 16063 [map]
Phone 724-452-9457
Please
visit our BCTCB member, the Zelienople Historical
Society. 1808-1810 Passavant House and 1805 Buhl House
gallery of changing exhibits.
Visit them online at:
www.fyi.net/~zhs |
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