Now we know it as Spring Creek Township. Before that it was “Number Two.” Before that, Benjamin Franklin was part of its story. Spring Creek Township turns 200 this year and the community is planning a bicentennial event for Sunday, August 22. So for the next several weeks, this ...

It will always catch my eye when I can make a connection to a tangible vestige of the Civil War in the county. All the more so when I make the connection with newspapers that date from the 1880s. By now, it must be clear that making those connections fascinates me. There is so little ...

A state grant program is helping the Warren County Historical Society uncover treasures it didn’t know it had. Most recently, that’s taken the form of a digitization effort of the society’s Photo Album Collection. “We have recently received a grant through the Pennsylvania ...

The court clerk that took a statement in 1818 from James Magee can be forgiven for not recognizing the full contributions of the man he was speaking to. Magee was 86 at the time and described as an “insolvent debtor” as he gave a sworn statement to Alexander McCalmont, prothonotary for ...

Warren County has always had a lot more to offer than meets the eye. When passing through, whether it be on Route 6, 62, or a locally-known dirt road, the result on the surface is generally the same — wildlife, forest, and glimpses of what once was. Warren Area High School graduate Kevin ...

From 1825 until 1835, John Brown was a resident of northwestern Pennsylvania. Crawford County marked one in a series of ultimately unsuccessful ventures that turned Brown into a frequent traveler. It’s clear though that one thing that did remain with him regardless of where he went ...