Crawford County Messenger and CCHS News

Florence Adelbert Howe Margach Howe was born in 1877 in Meadville and died in 1961 in Ohio. Her girlhood home was at 482 Baldwin Street, Meadville. In 1901 she married Bertram Falwell Howe (born 1877...

The homes at Hillcrest in Meadville, Pennsylvania, have become such a part of the fabric of the community that one could almost take them for granted. They seem to have always been there. Like a...

Dorothy Thurston was born on July 31, 1896, in Meadville, Pennsylvania, to Alic and Jessie May (Hill) Thurston. She was one of five children in a family well known for its contributions to local and...

Gate House at the Pymatuning Reservior – 1930’s While in recent times the imposition of man’s power over nature has come under much needed scrutiny, there are situations where the total destruction of one area...

Front view of the Saegertown Inn with French Creek along left side. With the overwhelming interest in photographs of the Saegertown Inn recently posted on the Crawford County Historical Society’s social media pages, what better...

The Baldwin-Reynolds visible from the pond in the spring months Eleanor Davies is one of Meadville’s oldest residents and was a personal friend of John and Katherine Reynolds. She was the speaker at the museum’s...

The Carter Mansion was built at Oakwood Farm in 1930 Crawford County has lost a landmark with the recent fire of the 1930 Luke B. Carter mansion, known as Oakwood Farm, on the Hydetown Road...