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“Join the Nation…thank a Vietnam Veteran” is the slogan for and main focus of The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration. ...

March is designated as “Women’s History Month” a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture and society. This month we...

Students have settled in to yet another semester as frigid temperatures descend on Indiana County. Though the year is still young, much...

Transportation is the life-line to any community, it helps move people and goods from place to place. It enables communities to thrive...

This month brought with it a new year, and also a new exhibit “Art Through Textiles: Quilts and Quilters of Indiana County, 1850 to 1950.”...

“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, a favorite novel read by many at this time of year. Indiana County has a special connection to...

The end of the year has arrived much sooner than anticipated. The previous eleven months have flown by thanks to an active program...

Thanksgiving - a day we set aside to give thanks, but why do we celebrate this day? We are all familiar with the first “thanksgiving”...

October has come and gone, and with it the Society’s 84th annual meeting. The weather was favorable, and the atmosphere was seasonal. The...

Each year on October 31, we celebrate Halloween - we go trick-or-treating, carve jack-o-lanterns, put on costumes, and attend parties. ...

What is the value of an old building? From a monetary perspective they can be quite costly and take a tremendous amount of effort to...

Indiana County’s musical ghost inhabits a little house at Smicksburg in West Mahoning Township, and has been named the “fiddling ghost of...

Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except Death and Taxes.” Since the beginning of time,...

During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Indiana County saw tremendous wealth thanks to the flourishing businesses and industry...

We live in the golden age of genealogical and historical research. DNA tests, coupled with mainstream websites, such as Ancestry and...

The cannon which is now positioned on the corner of South Sixth Street and Washington Avenue outside the Museum is No. 14 of 70, 5 inch...

Insurance is and always has been a tricky business. Modern companies, outfitted with technology that would have astounded people of the...

Beginning last year in August, strange things started to happen at the museum. After everything began opening again, the Historical...

Imagine the year is 1870 and you find yourself seated in the grand parlor of one of the many affluent residences of Indiana County. As...

It was May 1772, and Captain Fergus Moorhead was just twenty-nine years old. He along with his two brothers Samuel and Joseph, James...