Dr. Helen Pollay Weeks
Posted onArticle contributed by the Fairview Area Historical Society This year several member organizations of Erie Yesterday, a county-wide group of museums and historical societies, put together program for teachers on […]
Highway Patrol Officer Swanson Killed in North East
Posted onBy Dick Tefft Many people in North East know of the memorial on West Main Street dedicated to the patrolman that was shot on the streets of North East, but […]
Where Men and Boys Became Soldiers
Posted onThe History of Camp Reed By Eric Marshall By the time Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as President of the United States on Monday, March 4, 1861, the national […]
Settlement of the Erie Triangle
Posted onA Slow Start After the American Revolution (1775–1783), the newly formed state of Pennsylvania looked forward to expanding settlement of its western lands. The territory known as the “Erie Triangle,” […]
A Man Nationally Known and Locally Forgotten (Until Now)
Posted onFrancis Newton Thorpe (1857-1926) During the short life of North East’s Lake Shore Seminary, the school helped shape a few hundred students into bright, ambitious young men and women. Included […]