If you haven't yet read Ceane O'Hanlon-Lincoln's award-winning COUNTY CHRONICLES series, you haven't discovered how much fun reading history can be!

If you've already had the pleasure of reading other volumes in this series, be amazed--all over again--with state-of-the-heart author Ceane O'Hanlon-Lincoln's talent for bringing history alive.
The reading level for County Chronicles is 5th grade through adult.

If you haven't discovered the award-winning COUNTY CHRONICLES series, you haven't experienced how much fun reading history can be! Each volume of County Chronicles embraces a varied collection of short stories--true stories from Pennsylvania's thrilling past! The Keystone of the birth of our nation, Pennsylvania has much to relate to each and every American.

The reading level for County Chronicles is 5th grade through adult.

If you haven't discovered the award-winning COUNTY CHRONICLES series, you haven't experienced how much fun reading history can be! Each volume of County Chronicles embraces a varied collection of short stories--true stories from Pennsylvania's thrilling past! The Keystone of the birth of our nation, Pennsylvania has much to relate to each and every American.

The reading level for County Chronicles is 5th grade through adult.

SKETCH OF PITTSBURGH IN 1859. By Edward Willmann (Reprint) This sketch views Pittsburgh from an observation point on Mt. Washington above the city in 1859.

(Reprint) Sketch by Edwin Forbes, found in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War, 1896.

The first directory of this area, it lists approximately 1,200 individuals and businesses in Pithole, and includes business advertisements of the time. It also contains listings for three smaller communities nearby: Balltown, Dawson Center and Prather City.

This first directory published for this area lists names of approximately 1,900 businessmen, mechanics and laborers compiled from a general population estimated to be between 12,000 and 16,000 residents. These listings include occupations and addresses for virtually every name mentioned.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF TITUSVILLE & OIL CREEK. 1867 (2006 Reprint) by H.H. Hunt Agent & J.H. Lant. First directory of this area lists businesses and individuals who lived in these oil boom cities circa 1865-1867. Advertisements, also included in this resource book, can give you a snapshot of the times. 160 pages, 5 x 8 Softbound

This invaluable resource includes surveys in the year 1872 of landowners' parcels in Fayette County township plans, and borough and village plans; Pennsylvania county maps; and outline maps of Fayette County and Pennsylvania.

About 1800, John Ralston became one of the first settlers along the banks of the Slippery Rock Creek in Butler County. It was from this pioneer that his great-grandson William A. Ralston, the author, gathered most of his information about early times in the area.

Slippery Rock University: the Legend behind the Name—the culmination of 40 years of research—is the fascinating story of the evolution of this popular western Pennsylvania college

1897 pub. by R.C. Brown & Co.
Original w/new leather binding, very good condition. 8 x 11 hardbound, 1186 pages

For its 500th anniversary, Cooper Square Publishers set out to recreate the famous Bible. More than 50 years later, 128 unbound original Cooper Square Gutenberg Bibles were discovered by Pageant Books and Bookbinders Workshop, who then made the decision to bind these massive volumes with an authentic 15^th century-style binding.
The Lost Gutenbergs takes the reader through the process of recreating these beautiful masterpieces with concise photographs and explanations.