Althom is a riverside community along the west bank of the Allegheny River in Deerfield Township. It lies a little closer to Irvine than to Tidioute. It’s name is sort of in-between, too. According to Ernest Miller’s Place Names in Warren County, Althom was named by ‘the railroad.’ ...

It wasn’t uncommon in the 19th century for the occupants of a place to select the name of the place where they lived. In fact, some residents in the county were given that authority when E-911 went into effect when previously unnamed streets and roads suddenly needed names. But in the ...

Freehold is not an uncommon name for a place. The township in northwestern Warren County was carved out of Columbus and Sugar Grove townships in the early 1800s. It was named for its legal standing. Ernest Miller, in Place Names of Warren County, pennsylvania, said the citizens who ...

There are places named Clarendon in England, Canada, Australia, and Jamaica, as well as Arkansas, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, South Carolina, Michigan, and Warren County, Pennsylvania. Since 1661 (except for 1753 to 1776) the Earl of Clarendon has been a title in ...

This week’s edition piles one unlikely story on top of another that places an area outside of Tidioute at the center of one of the nation’s largest industries. Let’s start with Ernest Miller’s Place Names in Warren County. That details Grandin as “a projected village in ...

Donald Martin has been a lifelong resident of Lottsville. In honor of the village’s bicentennial in 2015, he composed a more-than-60-page book that details the history and captures the community spirit of his hometown. While the book contains many more stories than can be told here, it ...