One of the leading tire brands in the world is BFGoodrich. Diamond Tires - the firm I wrote about last week - sold to B.F. Goodrich for $45 million. The actual B.F. Goodrich? He’s from Chautauqua County. But, ironically, he would have died before the company bearing his name ever ...
The average price of gas in 1918 was $.25 cents a gallon. Woodrow Wilson was president and World War I was coming to a conclusion. The Ford Model T was still the most popular car, presumably in black. And Marshall Parshall was selling Diamond Tires in Warren. Given all the talk of the ...
There are times when I have to write these stories knowing that I don’t, in fact, have the rest of the story. But a Warren-native that rose to the rank of Lieutenant General in the U.S. Air Force and then worked in the administration at NASA as part of the Office of Manned Space Flight ...
April 18 has some special significance in the history of Warren County. And both are highlighted with a Founders Day exhibit - highlighted by a letter signed by the county’s namesake Dr. Joseph Warren - that’s on display at the Warren County Historical Society throughout this ...
This “What could have been?” on the Allegheny Reservoir is quite the rabbit trail. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Warren County mobilized as the completion of the Kinzua Dam project approached. The “Warren County Planning Commission” was formed in 1958 and by early 1960 had ...
Those of us born after 1970 know the Kinzua Dam and Allegheny Reservoir areas for what they are today. (The one exception to that is the flap over the proposed resort). But the more I learn, the more I realize the wild range of proposals there were to boost the tourism value of that area. ...