DESCRIPTION: “Join us as we travel in the footsteps of Beaver County’s role in the Underground Railroad era.” SEE ALSO: Underground Railroad Safe Houses in Beaver County RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY The Listening Library of Beaver County (LLBC) is curated by The Social Voice Project. It is a publicly and privately sourced …
DESCRIPTION: “During WWII, Tony Sercel of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania served with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division in Europe. This interview is a production of The Social Voice Project’s Veteran Voices of Pittsburgh Oral History Initiative, in partnership with the nonprofit Veterans Breakfast Club and Carnegie Free Library, Beaver Falls. It was recorded June 19, 2013 at …
This is the primary site for archival information and photographs on Beaver County Pennsylvania. We hope that you find the information contained here of value. Our goal is not to create a highly interactive site, but one whose primary purpose is to be a source of vital local historical information for your reading pleasure and …
John Francis of Blairsville, Pennsylvania was an engineering student at Penn State during WWII. Sign up to join the army now, an ROTC commander urged him, and he’d get some credit for his schooling before being drafted. It seemed like a deal. After basic and artillery training, John was sent to aviation school with the …
‘Travelogue, made for theatrical showing and commissioned by Cheverolet, promoting tourism by car…’ Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise …
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Youtube playlist of local historian Jeffrey Snedden’s “History in a Minute” video series, published by The Beaver County Times. VIDEO TITLES: History in a Minute: 1936 St. Patrick’s Day flood History in a Minute: Aliquippa Hospital History in a Minute: Aliquippa Park History in a Minute: Aliquippa Works History in a Minute: Aliquippa’s Franklin Avenue …
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Mark Grago YouTube playlist related to Native Americans in and around Beaver County. I Find an Indian Burial Mound? Early&Native American History of Ohioville, PA. (Beaver County, PA) The Legend of Indian Rock (South Beaver Township, Pennsylvania) How Pittsburgh Tamed The West! RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY
Various videos covering Beaver County topics of interest. RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY