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The Connellsville Canteen, which today is a café and museum, takes its name from the community-sponsored canteen that provided snacks and conversation......
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If you were asked to name the most American drink on the market, odds are it would be some sort of beer. But before the days of bottles and cans of......
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On March 12, 1931, a front-page headline in The Daily Courier of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, announced “Walton League Charter Closed With 61 Members:......
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When you visit today’s Rockwood Mill Shoppes & Opera House, it seems like a modern repurposing of an old industrial space. Although the building was......
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When we think about mining boomtowns in U.S. history, our minds travel westward to the gold, silver and copper towns that popped up—and sometimes......
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Today, you can still catch a train from Pittsburgh’s Union Station, though most of the building is now luxury rental apartments. But this beautiful......
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This stretch of the Great Allegheny Passage (gaptrail.org) between Sand Patch and Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, runs parallel to CSX Railroad’s Keystone......
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Although the more famous mill in Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, is George Washington’s grist mill, built in 1776 on land owned by the nation’s first......
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Although today the resplendent building at 151 Center Street bears a sign for the Somerset Trust Company, it was originally the home of the Second......
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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright built this unique home for the Kaufmann family, owner of Kaufmann's Department Store in downtown Pittsburgh. Visitors can......
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The Flight 93 National Memorial honors the 40 passengers and crew of Flight 93 who died during the events that unfolded on Sept. 11, 2001, when their......
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Fort Pitt and Fort Duquesne were essential to both the French and English militaries during the French and Indian War. Situated where the Allegheny......
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Learn about life in Western Maryland from the mid-1800s to the present, particularly the history of mining in the region, at the Frostburg......
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The Layton Bridge, constructed from 1893 to 1899 by Pencoyd Iron Works for the Washington Run Railroad, is an unusual Pratt pin-connected truss......
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Although Ohiopyle State Park was officially created in the 1960s, the area has been a natural escape from the industrialized cities of Western......
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This 1929 “shorty” boxcar chugged along Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad tracks until the 1970s. In 2010, members of the Mon/Yough Trail Council moved......
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Free admission and host of brand new exhibits featuring both abundant and endangered species from around the world. Don’t forget to drop by the Zoo’s most famous residents: giant pandas!
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