Warren was founded in 1795.
But the city’s population didn’t crest 1,000 until 1850.
Those early decades saw Warren as a scantily-populated frontier town.
As a result, many of the “modern” amenities of the 19th century - transportation infrastructure (roads, rail), local ...
"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right....”
Those words are pretty familiar.
They’re the start of the conclusion to Lincoln’s second inaugural address, given in March 1865.
But those words are never written if Lincoln ...
A project at Oakland Cemetery to rehabilitate the Struthers mausoleum has been completed.
The mausoleum contains the remains of Thomas Struthers and his family, a total of nine individuals.
Struthers Library Theatre. Struthers Wells. Struthers Street.
All of those ultimately date back to ...
During that 1888 election, there were little more than 4,500 people living in Warren.
But it had three newspapers.
And this was an era where newspapers were blatantly partisan. So the Warren Mail was a Republican mouthpiece and the Warren Ledger was at least informally the paper for the ...
Hugh Watson McNeil was killed in Sept. 1862 at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland.
When the surviving members of the Bucktails met in Warren in 1918, McNeil, their colonel, remained a prominent figure in the minds of the men, nearly 60 years since he was killed.
The regiment’s history, ...
About 25 members of the famed Bucktail regiment came to Warren for the organization's annual reunion in 1918.
Those attending included men from all across Pennsylvania.
They included men who were raised here but had migrated to New York and as far as Texas and Oregon.
They included the ...