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7 Peculiar Tales from Conneaut Lake
From a 1907 postcard, Conneaut Lake’s main thoroughfare (Water Street) facing west. With summer now if full swing, many area residents and vacationers have already made their way to Conneaut Lake to enjoy the many...
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Crawford County Native Won the First Indy 500
Ray Harroun 1879-1968 The winner of the first Indianapolis 500, Ray Harroun was born on January 12, 1879 in Spartansburg, Pennsylvania in northern Crawford County. Harroun was the youngest of Russell and Lucy Harroun’s four...
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The Story of James Densmore and the First Typewriter
James Densmore As you string out words into strings of sentences across the screen of your computer, tablet, or mobile phone, know that the keyboard layout we have all become so familiar was conceived in...
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Old Grey: The Tale of the Reisinger Rifle
Editor’s Notes: James Monroe (“Roe”) Reisinger’s family came to the French Creek area from Lancaster via Beaver County. Descended from Hessian immigrants who arrived about 1750, the family settled in the 1840s along French and...
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The Curious of Life of Phil Miller and his Friend Mark Twain
1865 map showing the site off Miller’s home Of the names associated with the history of Conneaut Lake, none carries the intrigue of Phil Miller. Philip W. Miller was a boat builder and expert outdoorsman...
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The Meadville Mutuals: Baseball Champions of 1875
Meadville Mutuals Team Photo Opening day of the 2016 Baseball season is upon us yet again which among other things, presents the opportunity to highlight the area’s curious place as part of America’s pastime. Like...
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Marion County was the Home of the World’s First Oil Boom
Proposed boundaries of Marion County and Titusville as the seat Everybody knows that the northwest corner of Pennsylvania is made up of Crawford, Erie, Warren and Marion counties: The last named after the Revolutionary War...
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