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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...

Booming of cannons, firecrackers, marching men in uniform - that was the Fourth of July of the past in Indiana County. Traditionally,...

June 14 - Flag Day - a hardly recognized holiday today. Although we all know that government offices are closed, but beyond that, why do...

May has been termed as Historic Preservation Month. The month has been set aside to promote historic places and heritage tourism, and...