Local History

Cemeteries serve as both a final resting place for our families and loved ones and a way to keep their...

It’s Christmas 1957 in Mather and Bridget Vernon’s mother Mary Moon got a bride doll and a desk.   “Both...

Christmas is a season where many people look forward to happy memories, rare opportunities to gather as a family and...

Artifacts are objects made by man and can act as representatives from eras long since gone.  An artifact can be...

Sometimes there are too many good old photos to choose just one - especially if it involves Toys for Tots...

Many tales of tragedy and sadness have been related in recent years about the living conditions in the Greene County...

The late 18th Century in southwestern Pennsylvania, and the nation, were turbulent times of change. The Revolutionary War was over,...

A stretch of Rolling Meadows Road was hemmed with canvas tents poking through the morning mist on Saturday, October 8.  Shadowy...

It’s Harvest Festival 1980 at the Greene County Historical Society Museum and the reenactment being demonstrated here is apple pressing,...

Times change with the season, and with each passing year and each passing generation we grow distant from what many...