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What better way to keep track of the future than by remembering Butler’s illustrious past? As you turn the pages of this full size, 12-month wall calendar, enjoy a glimpse of Transportation in Butler County, in the thirty-eight photos of sleighs, stagecoaches, trains, six unique vehicles designed and built in Butler County, buses, planes, and more! Makes a great gift! Price: $10.00 + tax
Rage, Murder, and Execution! The Story of Sam Mohawk and the Wigton Family Massacre. By Bradley Pflugh With the Historical Society's recent acquisition of Sam Mohawk's manacles, the story of the massacre again moved to the forefront in 2011. The handful of available publications centered on local lore, rumors, and scatterings of articles that had been published in newspapers over the years, none of which ever gave the full picture of what happened. In order to clear up the rumors and local lore about Mohawk, Bradley researched all the available newspapers, publications, and documents from 1843-44 and many published since to answer the questions of what brought Mohawk to Butler, which direction did he come from, where all did he stop on his journey, where was he hung, where was he buried, and why did he commit the murders? Read about this fascinating piece of Butler County history and the first man hung here. Soft cover, 57 pages, color and black/white photographs. Price: $10.00 + tax
Four Wheels and a Vision: Butler's Automotive Inventions, 1905-1941. By Carlene Bouwman, Pat Collins, and Patti Jo Lambert. This book covers thirty-six years of Butler's automotive golden age and includes photos of all six vehicles manufactured by Butler entrepreneurs during this time. They faced many challenges-including the Great Depression. One of the Butler-made vehicles-the Bantam Reconnaissance Car-became the most important American vehicle ever built, now known as the 'jeep'. Soft cover, 27 pages, color and black/white photographs. Price: $4.00 + tax
Celebrate one of Butler's proud moments in history and the Bantam 'jeep' leading the parade that put Butler in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest 'jeep' parade!
T-shirt design by well-known artist, John Gumpper. Bantam jeep in front of the Bantam office building. Sand colored t-shirt Sizes S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3 XL $12.00 Sand colored polo shirt. Sizes M, L, XL $15.00
Holabird T-shirt design by Greg Barto of Classic Ink. Holabird, MD was the destination of the Bantam prototype being delivered to the U. S. Army. Bantam logo at the top on the back of the shirt. Sizes S, M, L, XL, 2XL, and 3XL - $12.00 Coming Soon! Butler County, PA Playing Cards $10.00 per deck. 54 historical photographs of Butler County with brief information about each photo on a full size deck of playing cards.
CARD BACK One of the 54 historic photos included in each deck. We do not have a firm delivery date on this item but will begin sales of a 'gift card' on December 1. If the cards arrive before Christmas we will call and you may pick up them up. If they do not arrive before Christmas we expect to have them available for pick-up after January 10, 2012. School's Out! 150 Years of Butler County Pennsylvania Schools: The Northern Townships By Natalie Hall-Hiles Edited by Pat Collins Learn about the buildings, teachers, and students who attended the township schools as they come alive on the pages of this long overdue book. Butler County's rich educational heritage is documented on these pages with more than four hundred photographs, factual information, and memories that span over one hundred fifty years of the local schools. This book contains the schools located in the eighteen northern townships in Butler County. Townships included in this book are: Allegheny, Brady, Buffalo, Center, Cherry, Clay, Concord, Donegal, Fairview, Franklin, Marion, Mercer, Muddy Creek, Oakland, Parker, Slippery Rock, Washington, and Worth. Soft cover, 303 pages, 416 photographs. Price: $35.00 + tax Reprint of Popular Book! Merrie Olde Middlesex By Caroljo Forsythe Lee No great battles were fought in Middlesex. No Shining Luminaries overpowered the scene. Washington certainly never slept here—in fact, Lafayette’s horse didn’t even have the common courtesy to water over at the local trough. But what did go on—and there was plenty—was the essence of pioneer life at the level where it was really lived and loved. Mrs. Lee’s goal was to avoid the typical broadside, scattershot approach to history which covers a wide area and spends time, ad infinitum, on famous inhabitants. She succeeded by turning a high-powered microscope on one small area and going down, down, down. Homes and attics, albums and scrapbooks, dusty Courthouse records untouched for almost two centuries one by one became accessible to her. The result: a delightful history crammed with valuable Americana such as the original minutes of an 1825 adultery trial in one of western Pennsylvania’s oldest churches. Hard cover, 344 pages. Price: $53.00 + tax An Address: Historic and Reminiscent. By Andrew White McCollough. Reprinted by Tim Shaffer. Reprint of Andrew White McCollough’s address for the centennial of Mt. Nebo Presbyterian Church at Whitestown. Soft cover, 119 pages. Price: $10.00 + tax Early History of Saxonburg 1924 (2008 Reprint) by Col. Washington A. Roebling Reminiscences about the early history of the Village of Saxonburg, in Butler County, Pa., from 1831 to 1840, written by the eldest son of John A. Roebling, founder of this village. John Roebling was also the famous inventor of wire rope and engineer of suspension bridges, etc. A lot of fascinating information is packed into this small booklet. Along with a short biography of John Roebling, and how Saxonburg was laid out, the author also listed the inhabitants, with bio-sketches, of Saxonburg around 1840. Soft cover, 40 pages. Price: $5.00 + tax Harmony in 1811 from Travels in the
United States of America Reproduction of John Melish's account of his visit in 1811 to Harmony. "The best surviving description of the Harmony Society's first community in America." Soft cover, 26 pages. Price: $5.00 + tax Interesting Trials: The Case of Samuel Mohawk A book of the famous trial of Samuel Mohawk, the Seneca Indian who massacred the Wigton family near Slippery Rock. Soft cover, 24 pages. Price: $5.00 + tax The Life and Times of Connoquenessing Subjects vary from Native Americans to the Biddle Brothers, including personal reflections of Connoquenessing residents. Soft cover, 209 pages with black and white photos. Price: $12.00 + tax A Listing of Names Inscribed on Ladies
Aid Society Subscription Quilt Dated January 1932 – St. John’s
Reformed Church The Society owns a subscription quilt made by the Ladies Aid Society of St. John’s Reform Church of Chicora in 1932. There are 492 names on the quilt in 25 groups of 20 names. There is a surname list on page 4 of this document. Every name is listed in the ending table of this document. The quilt itself is displayed at the Shaw House Museum in Butler. Kay E. Hoffman and Ray D. Hoffman transcribed the names and wrote this report. Price: $1.00 + tax Main Street Butler: An Album, 1960 & 1980 By Stephen M. Pozar The photographs in this book of Main Street as it was in the early 1960s are from the collection of the Butler County Historical Society. They are tantalizing in that they show only the buildings at the corners of each intersection. The photographs of Main Street as it was in 1980, were taken by the author, and are a complete record of every building from the South Main Street Viaduct to Brady Street. Black and white photos, soft cover, 144 pages. Price: $32.00 + tax The Old Home Week Book By Andrew White McCulloch and David Luther Roth. Reprinted by Tim Shaffer. A reprint of the original Prospect Old Home Week Book of 1912. Soft cover, 201 pages. Price: $10.00 + tx Prospect Memories Reprints of a series of newspaper articles about the citizens of Prospect as seen through the eyes of George Preston Weigle. All volumes include name index. Soft cover. Price:Vol. 1 - Jan. 8, 1886 - Dec. 28, 1900 - $20.00+tx Vol. 2 - Jan. 3, 1901 - Dec. 27, 1910 - $10.00+tx Vol. 3 - Jan. 3, 1911 - Dec. 26, 1918 - $10.00+tx Vol. 4 - Jan. 1, 1919 - Dec. 23, 1924 - $10.00+tx Prospect Remembers By Prospect Terquasquicentennial Committee A reprint of The Old Home Week Book of 1912 by Andrew White McCulloch and David Luther Roth with the addition of photographs. The book also includes additional sections, including Rube Waddell, churches, schools, and the military. Hard cover, 170 pages. Price: $25.00 + tax A Town Hidden on a Hill, Queen Junction:
History of a Railroad Town, Clay Township, Butler County,
Pennsylvania This book covers the history of the area, which was a crossroads for the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroads, from the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. Includes many photographs. Available in hard cover and soft cover, 250 pages. Price: $25.00 - soft cover, $35.00 - hard cover + tax The Wigton Massacre: A Documentary History A collection of rare and classic accounts of Seneca Indian Sam Mohawk’s murder of the James Wigton family near Slippery Rock. Soft cover, 51 pages with black and white photos. Price: $5.00 + tax |
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Butler’s Past Comes Alive A book about local railroads, breweries, and many other industries, which includes recorded recollections of well-known Butler residents. Soft cover, 267 pages with black and white photographs. Price: $15.00 + tax The History of Medicine in Butler County This book includes the progress of medical care in the county from pioneer doctors and midwives through the epidemics that ravaged residents. It also covers the creation of the Butler Memorial Hospital. Hard cover with dust jacket, 66 pages with black and white photos. Price: $30.00 + tax The Hot Mill Gang By Peter E. Connor Do you have a friend or relative who worked in a mill or at Armco? Give them the perfect Gift! Let him/her read a humorous book about mill workers and their funny, on the job stories. See and laugh at more then 50 cartoons drawn by the men themselves while at work. A great, funny Christmas gift for the mill man/women who needs nothing - except to relive their good old days working in a mill by reading this book. Price: $35.00 + tax The Standard Plate Glass Company In the 1880s, ample natural gas supplies made profitable plate glass production possible in Butler. Pittsburgh-area window glassmakers used the Butler works to challenge the newly formed Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in the rapidly growing national plate glass market. Many immigrant Belgian, French, German, and English glassworkers joined with native-born workers to operate the plant efficiently and successfully. Historical sources provide new information about the people who funded and built the plant and about the employers who manned the plant. Hundreds of workers are identified and their paths to Butler charted. Soft cover, 52 pages, photographs and maps. Price: $14.95 + tax Where Earth Dissolves Like Snow: The Keystone Driller Story By Wayne A. Cole History of the well drilling machine patented in 1880 by Robert Magee Downie of Butler County and his Keystone Driller Company of Beaver County. The history ironically twists in 1912 from well drilling to the forerunner of America’s first backhoe. Soft cover, 96 pages. Price: $20.00+tx |
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Butler County A postcard book containing 200 images from around Butler County. Soft cover, 128 pages. Price: $19.99 + tax Butler County Revisited The second book in the Butler County Postcard History Series. Contains 200 images from around Butler County not included in the first book, Butler County. Soft cover, 128 pages. Price: $19.99 + tax Butler County Centennial Souvenir This limited edition, numbered reprint of Butler County’s Centennial Souvenir for the celebration of Butler County’s bicentennial in 2000 is available in limited quantities. Hard cover, black and white illustrations and photographs. Price: $20.00 + tax Butler County, Pennsylvania Celebrates
Its Bicentennial The book form of the articles written in commemoration of the county’s bicentennial. Hard cover with dust jacket, 435 pages with illustrations and black and white photos. Price: $20.00 + tax Butler County, the Second Hundred Years This book contains tales of the people, businesses, and industries of the county. Includes a detailed timeline from 1753 to 1994 and biographical sketches of current and former residents. Hard cover, 218 pages. Price: $25.00 + Tax Butler, A Pictorial History Originally published in 1983, this updated county history includes additional information on several areas of the county. Hard cover with dust jacket, 240 pages with black and white photos. Price: $25.00 + tax Favorite Sons & Sons of Guns or Butler
- This book includes sixty-four historical essays of Butler County. Soft cover, 291 pages with black and white illustrations. Price: $15.00 + Tax History of Butler County, Pennsylvania,
1883 Price: $55.00 + tax Surname Index to 1883 History of Butler County By Sally Jordan Reed Soft cover, 32 pages. Price: $6.00 + tax History of Butler County, Pennsylvania,
1895 2002 reprint. The personal and family biographies contain very important information on early settlers. This two-volume book also traces the first 95 years of the county. Hard cover, 1,360 pages. Price: $89.95 + tax Surname Index to R.C. Brown’s 1895
History of Butler County, Volume II Much more complete than the original index. Soft cover, 17 pages. Price: $6.00 + tax History of Butler County, Pennsylvania,
1909 Two-volume book of historical accounts and biographical information about early settlers, merchants, businesses, hotels, and more. Hard cover. Price: $139.95 + tax History of Butler County, Pennsylvania,
1927 Two-volume book packed with local history, biographical sketches, genealogical facts, and dates. Hard cover. Price: $124.95 + tax |
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Butler County Cemeteries, Volume 1 - The Northern Townships Mercer, Marion, Venango, Allegheny, Slippery Rock, Cherry, Washington, and Parker Townships. Hard cover, 380 pages. Price: $42.95 + tax Butler County Cemeteries, Volume 2 - The North-Central Townships Worth, Brady, Clay, Concord, Fairview, Muddy Creek, Franklin, Center, Oakland, and Donegal Townships. Hard cover, 454 pages. Price: $54.95 + tax Butler County Cemeteries, Volume 3 - The Central Townships Butler Township and Butler City. Hard cover, 581 pages. Price: $54.95 + tax Butler County Cemeteries, Volume 4 - The Central Townships Lancaster, Connoquenessing, Summit, Clearfield, and Jackson Townships. Hard cover, 367 pages. Price: $44.95 + tax Butler County Cemeteries, Volume 5 - The Southern Townships Forward, Penn, Jefferson, Winfield, Cranberry, Adams, Middlesex, Clinton, and Buffalo Townships. Hard cover. Price: $44.95 + tax Butler County Cemeteries Index A surname index of the cemeteries of all five volumes. Price: $29.95 + tax Butler County Cemeteries Set Includes all five volumes and index. Price: $260.70 + tax Butler County Death Records, 1893-1905By Cindy Baughman and Pat Collins
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Butler County in the Civil War Follow Butler County's soldiers through their victories, glories, defeats, and hardships on the Civil War's battlefields. The book contains 40+ photographs of Butler County soldiers, their homes, the battlefields on which they fought, and the monuments dedicated to their service. It also includes maps of the battlefields and a roster of Butler County soldiers. Each chapter follows an individual Butler County company through their service in the war, including battles at Gettysburg, Antietam, and others. Hard cover, 175 pages. Price: $38.00 + tax New! Letters from the Storm: The Intimate Civil War Letters of Lt. J.A.H. Foster, 155th Pennsylvania Volunteers By Linda Foster Arden This collection of 101 letters written by Lieutenant Foster, mostly to his wife Mary Jane, while serving with the 155th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company K, is skillfully interspersed with commentary about the events and situations of the era. In many respects, Foster’s letters mirror the comments made by soldiers on both sides. However, there is another dimension to Foster’s letters that is much less common in Civil War correspondence-the intimate exchange of the couple’s views on sex-expressions that certainly challenge the broad assumption that “Victorians” did not speak of these matters. Another important dimension is that he had an especially keen eye for detail, reflected in occasional drawings, and a talent for colorful language. At his best, Foster’s comments about the war as seen from a soldier in the field rival anything that has been published. Indexed, 53 illustrations and photos. 2010, 365 pages, 7 x 10 softbound. Price: $29.95 + tax
Dear Teres: Civil War Letters of Andrew
Joseph Duff and Dennis Dugan of Company F, the Pennsylvania Seventy-Eighth
Infantry Contains nearly 250 letters received by Teresa Elizabeth Dugan from her brother and two nephews who served in Company F, the Pennsylvania Seventy-Eighth Infantry. Soft cover, 322 pages. Price: $17.95 + tax The Fourteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer
Cavalry in the Civil War A reprint of a 1915 Slease work with a supplemental roster by Ron Gancas. Slease was a veteran of the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Calvary and spent nearly two years researching the officers and men of this gallant regiment. Hard cover, 299 + 124 pages. Price: $39.95 + tax History of the 103rd Regiment PA Veteran Volunteer Infantry By Luther S. Dickey (1910 Reprint) Organized in Kittanning, PA, of men from the counties of Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana, Mercer, Venango, and Westmoreland. Many of the soldiers were imprisoned at Andersonville. Includes detailed activities of the unit, pictures, maps, and rosters. Not indexed. Hard cover, 400 pages. Price: $54.95 + tax In the Ranks By Rev. R.E. McBride R.E. McBride, of Prospect, recounts his service with the 190th Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War. Soft cover, 246 pages. Price: $15.00 + tax Sons of the Commonwealth: A Story of the
Pennsylvania Reserves
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200 Years of Butler County Recipes
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Schnur Family, 1800 to 2009, Once upon a time there was a family... Researched and compiled by Richard Eugene Schnur This family history begins with George Schnur who was born in West Prussia, Germany about 1800. He brought his wife and three children to the United States in 1836. Loaded wtih family photos and information this boko is a must for Schnur descendants. Soft Cover, 235 pages. Price: $35.00 + tax Liebler Family 1786 to 2007 Researched and compiled by Richard E. Schnur In 1829, Andrew Liebler and his brother George, brought their wives and their widowed mother, Anna Barbara Vogel Liebler, from Baden, Germany and came to the United States. They landed at the Port of PHiladelphia and traveled by oxen to Allegheny County than came north to Butler Township. Soft cover, 128 pages. Price: $25.00 + tax |
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Butler City Map, 1896 Bird’s-eye view sketched in the late 19th century on heavy-weight parchment suitable for framing. 32”x22”. Price: $6.95 + tax Combination Atlas: The County of Butler
and the State of Pennsylvania, 1874 Maps of the individual Pennsylvania counties, thirty-three Butler County maps as well as borough maps, all of which contain property owners’ names. Soft cover. Price: $24.95 + tax Surname Index to the 1874 Atlas of Butler
County, Pennsylvania A landowner index to Combination Atlas: The County of Butler and the State of Pennsylvania, 1874. Soft cover, 27 pages. Price: $5.95 + tax Reproduction Map of Butler County, Pennsylvania 1858By Violet M. CovertA reproduction of the 1858 map of Butler County. Each chapter represents one township with much-easier-to-read landowners’ names, a brief history and index as well as location of cemeteries. Other maps demonstrate the timeline and division of the townships, and provide locations of schools and other points of historical interest. Packed full of information, including an index. 143 pages.Price: $21.95 + tax – soft cover $34.95 + tax – hard cover |
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The Story Behind the Names of Western Pennsylvania Counties 2008 Reprint by Mechling Bookbindery Originally printed in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph in the early 20th century as part of the ads for John M. Roberts & Son Co. jewelers, these short county histories, explaining the origin of the names to 25 western Pennsylvania counties, were compiled and published in a booklet, which has been reprinted for the 21st century reader. Soft cover, 55 pages. Price: $6.00 + tax Save Our Land, Save Our Towns: A Plan
for Pennsylvania Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Hylton studied comprehensive planning in eleven states and reports here on what works to preserve farmlands, foster communities, and provide a better future for our citizens. Soft cover with dust jacket, 127 pages with color photos. Price: $10.00+tx |
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Butler County, Pennsylvania: News of the
Day, 1806-1901 See our online
index of Butler County residents contained in
these newspapers. Also included on our site is information on
purchasing single CD's. Price: $50.00 + tax Shards of the Past: Reprint of Butler Eagle Articles, January 1995-October 1998 By Rebekah Sheeler Mini essays originally published in the Butler Eagle. Includes trivia questions and a history quiz. Soft cover, 88 pages. Price: $5.00 + tax
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This book “takes you on a pictorial tour of the oil industry in the Pennsylvania Field from the discovery and boom eras through the re-surgence occurring today.” “It provides an absorbing look at the people and events that shaped our communities and culture, combining incredible vintage photographs gleaned from libraries, historical societies and private collections with remarkable contemporary images created by award-winning photographer Ed Bernik.” Enclosed road trip DVD includes a tour of historic sites through the Pennsylvania Field. 116 pages, hard cover. Price: $39.95 + tax New!!! From Boom to Bust: The Making of “the Smallest City in the U.S.A.” - Parker, Pennsylvania By Marilyn McCall In the brief space of ten years, the Pennsylvania villages of Parker’s Landing and Lawrenceburg (which became the City of Parker during this period) ascended from simple villages with a combined population of merely 1,000 to the heights and depths of a bustling city with a population of more than 20,000 during peak oil production, and back again to a population of merely 1,000, earning Parker its unique distinctions as “the Smallest City in the U.S.A.” The City of Parker, nestled deep within the foothills of the majestic Allegheny Mountains, played a pivotal role in western Pennsylvania’s incredible journey into the world’s first commercial oil enterprise. From railroads, to pipe lines, to the city’s busy Oil Exchange, Parker’s pioneers contributed greatly in making the oil industry what it is today. Ms. McCall completes this fascinating history with a timeline from 1748 to July 2008, an extensive bibliography, and index. With 295 old photos, maps, and illustrations, this book makes it clear why this tiny dot on the map is a special place in western Pennsylvania. Price: $34.95 + tax Beautiful, Bountiful Butler County This book contains two driving tours with historical notes on the oil boom and oil towns of Butler County, some of which no longer exist, by a man who spent his life documenting oil history in the area. Soft cover, 71 pages with black and white photos. Price: $6.95 + tax History of the Muddy Creek Oil Field
and the Marshall-Barr Site This book traces the development of the oil field that is now part of Moraine State Park. A portion of this field has been restored and made into a museum that is open to the public. The book also discusses the equipment used and the genealogy of the families involved in the oil field. Soft cover, 33 pages with photos and maps. Price: $6.00 + tax The Geology of the Oil Regions of Warren, Venango, Clarion, and Butler Counties By John Franklin Carll and Reprinted by Oil Region Alliance John Franklin Carll (1828-1904) engaged in oil production in NW Pennsylvania for nearly ten years, becoming a recognized local expert on the geological characteristics of reservoirs as well as the engineering practices used to exploit them. When the Second Pennsylvania Geological Survey was organized in 1874, Carll was assigned to the oil region as the first geologist ever employed full-time to specialize in petroleum studies; and he conducted the first systematic scientific study of the oil fields. This book describes the facts and principles regarding the origin, location, abundance, and character of the petroleum deposits in the oil regions of Warren, Venango, Clarion, and Butler counties, as well as the history and mode of their exploitation. Descriptions of oil well rig and tools are given; pre-glacial drainage of the Lake Erie country is discussed. It also includes surveys of the Garland and Panama conglomerates in Warren and Crawford Counties in PA, and Chautuaqua County, NY. Contained are two indexes, 23 pages of plates; and an atlas of 22 sheet of maps, well-sections, and working drawings of well rig and tools. Hard cover with dust jacket, 486 pages. Price: $52.95 + tax Oil Region Reminiscences Souvenir
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Ben Hogan’s Wild Ride By Marilyn McCall Ben Hogan, the legendary bad man of the Oil Region, was, without a doubt, the most infamous character in the early days of oil. From 1852 - 1878, Hogan's wild ride took him throughout the eastern and mid-western portions of the United States. Most notable was the western Pennsylvania oil region where crime and vice ran rampant and disreputable characters gravitated to the oil fields. Ben Hogan and his many adventures fit right in with the bawdiness of this period where law and order were the last things on the minds of the settlers in the up-and-coming oil towns. Soft cover. Price: $12.95 + tax
Flood Tides Along the Allegheny A reprint of a work written in 1941 about the life and family of Massey Harbison. Includes historical details about southern Butler and Armstrong Counties with accounts of early settlers and a fold-out map. Soft cover, 205 pages. Price: $19.95 + tax The Journals of George Washington and
Christopher Gist: Mission to Fort Le Boeuf A reprint of the George Washington and Christopher Gist journals of their 1753 expedition to the French forts in western Pennsylvania. This reprint integrates the two journals for the very first time and is liberally annotated by Kopper. The editor also presents a detailed introduction to familiarize the reader with the significance of this historic journey through Butler County. Soft cover, 67 pages. Price: $7.95 + tax Richard Butler, Patriot A biographical sketch of the famous Revolutionary War soldier for whom the city and county are named, including family genealogy and military service of Butler and his brothers. Soft cover, 78 pages. Price: $9.00 + tax Rube Waddell: Butler’s Outrageous
Southpaw A biographical sketch of the eccentric pitcher from Prospect who is the only Butler County baseball player in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Soft cover. Price: $5.00 + tax Sketches of the Life and Indian Adventures
of Captain Samuel Brady A reprint of sketches of the life and Indian adventures of this legendary frontiersman. Price: $5.00 + tax Storm Stead and Way-Laid: The Gold Rush
Diary of Major Felix Casper Negley The great adventure of Major Felix Casper Negley, who left Butler County to travel to California in search of gold, including desert crossings, disease, and near disaster at sea. Soft cover. Price: $5.00 + tax Winfield Township Oral History Interviews This publication contains oral histories and photographs of early families of Winfield Township. Soft cover, 66 pages with black and white photos. Price: $8.95 + tax |
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Images of Rail: Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad By Kenneth C. Springirth Andrew Carnegie’s vision of transporting iron ore from his boats on lake Erie to his Pittsburgh steel mills was realized when he obtained ownership of a series of railroad companies in the region. In 1900, these companies became the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, which connected the Lake Erie ports of Erie, Pennsylvania, and Conneaut, Ohio, south to North Bessemer near Pittsburgh. Through vintage photographs, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad highlights the railroad passenger excursions to Conneaut lake Park and the steam and diesel locomotives used on the well-maintained line. The railroad continues to serve the steel industry today and in May 2004 was acquired by the Canadian National Railway. Arcadia Publishing. 2009, 127 pages, soft cover. Price: $21.99 + tax Ghost Rails III: Electrics By Wayne A. Cole Upper Ohio Valley—West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania A first-time history: The route of a Million Souls, the Steubenville East Liverpool & Beaver Valley Traction; Youngstown and Ohio River Railroad; Newell Bridge and Railway; Steubenville Traction; the electric coal road of Little Beaver Creek; Youngstown and Southern; Salem Electric; Chester and Rock Spring; Panhandle Electric; Rock Spring, Newell, and Stanton Amusement Parks. Hard cover, 312 pages. Price: $30.00+tx Ghost Rails VI By Wayne A. Cole The counterpart of Ghost Rails III Electrics Upper Ohio Valley; these two books give the ‘big picture’ of traction along ‘the line’. This book traverses: the Harmony Route in Pittsburgh, North Side, Boggs, Buhl, Evans City Division, Butler Division, Ellwood City—New Castle Division and the Beaver Falls Extension. 272 pages, hard cover. Price: $45.00 + tax Ghost Rails VII: By Wayne A. Cole This is the history of the Pittsburgh and Butler Street Railway, often known as the Butler Short Line, 1900 to 1931. In 1917 it was purchased by the Harmony Route. The thirty three mile route ran from Pittsburgh, Etna, Mars (near Route 8), Renfrew and into Butler. This volume also includes the history of Butler Street Railways. 16 pages in color. 2010, hard cover. Price: $50.00 + tax Ghost Rails VIII By Wayne A. Cole The Northern Sub begins in the Pittsburgh Division of the old Pittsburgh and Western narrow gauge era. About six miles of track at Callery Junction to a place called Reibold, abandoned since 1939, introduces the history. This area is steeped in history with the narrow gauge, Tower X, tunnel hill, and a 1000 foot massive trestle. Hard cover, 312 pages. Price: $45.00 + tax |
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Family Letters from the “Greatest
Generation” Descriptive, humorous, and emotional letters written home by Curry and other members of his family serving in the Armed Forces during World War II. The letters are reproduced as they were written, complete with ink stains. Soft cover, 333 pages with black and white photographs. Price: $5.00+tx Silent Heroes Among Us A collection of oral histories of western Pennsylvania veterans of the Eighth Air Force in World War II which received the Freedom Foundation Award in 1997. Price: $24.95+tx Tales of Valor and Courage of World War
II Written to honor and acknowledge Butler County veterans of World War II. Includes wartime letters and then and now photos. Ten dollars from every sale supports the construction of Butler County's World War II monument. Shrink wrapped. Hard cover, 243 pages with black and white photos. Price: $20.00+tx |
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For more information and to see photos of the following items Click Here! COASTERS Coasters of various Butler County scenes. Available individually or as a set of 4. Buy all four in the set as the same scene or mix and match—it’s your choice! (While supplies last) Cooper Cabin Lowrie/Shaw House McConnell’s Mill Old Stone House Slippery Rock University—Old Main Price: $5.00 Each + tax $18.00 Set of Four + tax ORNAMENTS Ornaments of various Butler County scenes. These are going fast! Please call for availability before mailing your payment! Alameda Park Butler County Courthouse Old Stone House Price: $8.00 Each + tax PLATES Miniature plates of various Butler County scenes. Alameda Park Butler County Courthouse Lowrie/Shaw House McConnell’s Mill Saxonburg Memorial Church Price: $10.00 + tax BUTLER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ITEMS Desk-top collectibles bearing the logo of the Butler County Historical Society. Paper Weights and Trinket Boxes available. Price: $5.00 Each + tax
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