Local History

As you might have guessed by now, I love having a stash of Greene County roadmaps in the glove compartment...

I found this moment in time captured on page 892 of the History of Greene County by G. Wayne Smith. It...

The Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad is the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first line opening in...

Greene County Pennsylvania hosts an abundance of historic and prehistoric sites, from Adena burial mounds dotted throughout the landscape, to...

It was the kind of bright spring day that shouts “let’s go out to the ballgame!” when I met up...

Here’s a magazine cover photo that gives Brave some bragging rights: “Mr. America 1952 Jim Park” is a native son....

I was surprised that Kent’s Chapel in Brave was not listed when I searched online for United Methodist Churches in Greene...

On a small farm in rural Gilmore Township, not too far from Jollytown, on February 25, 1852, a young girl...

On June 20, 1883, a man by the name of Earle R. Forrest was born in Washington, Pennsylvania. As a...

The Denny sisters paint a fine picture of what life was like for those with means in the early days...