Kramer & Mullins
2409, 2021

Kramer & Mullins

…operations. It all began with the construction of two five-story, 200-feet-long brick buildings at a sprawling West End property along the Allegheny River in 1891. It was the home of…

Franklin Public Library

…it is known that the FLA purchased Judge McCalmont’s home prior to 1917 but it was used as a boarding house until enough funds required to convert the home into…

Accessibility

…website accessibility efforts assist all users and that every person has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort and independence. Accessibility on oilregionlibraries.org oilregionlibraries.org makes UserWay’s Web Accessibility Widget…

Female Heroes
1808, 2023

Female Heroes

…would rather use her nursing skills and asked to be returned to active Army nurse duty. After working at Army hospitals in South Carolina and Colorado, Elizabeth was deployed to…

0207, 2021

Hasson Park

…In what the newspapers termed as “an unostentatious ceremony” attended by hundreds, park officials inserted a copper box in one of the stone pillars. The contents included a list of…

Peaches & Parking Meters
1006, 2022

Peaches & Parking Meters

…City’s North Side business district. Located at the corner of Elm and Center streets, the building would later house another department store and furniture store. Did You Know? Community efforts…

Rich and Famous
0302, 2023

Rich and Famous

…newspaper reporter as being a man between the ages of 55 and 60 years, of medium height and build, light complexion, large blue eyes, long white hair and whiskers. He…

100 Years of YWCA
1202, 2024

100 Years of YWCA

…to use as its headquarters. There is folklore that suggests the Maxwell house is haunted. Hattie’s mother, Elizabeth Finley, lived for a while with her daughter and son-in-law. At the…

Monarch Park
0104, 2022

Monarch Park

…Thriller, the merry-go-round shelter and the streetcar depot. The wood was used to build a warehouse on Cornplanter Run and a number of power houses on oil leases. The maple…

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten

…literacy skills so crucial to success in school. Any child can participate as long as he or she is not yet in kindergarten. How does it work? Read 1,000 books…