Butler County Historical
A project by Slippery Rock University and Butler County Historical SocietyButler County Historical puts local history - the people, places, and moments that have shaped the region’s past - at your fingertips. Explore location-based multimedia stories, experience curated historical tours of the county, and share your discoveries with others. Start exploring history today! Read more About Us
Featured Stories
Preston Park
Just off of South Eberhart Road in Butler Township is an eighty-eight acre English garden, unchanged since 1959: Preston Park. The park was originally created, cultivated, and finally given to Butler…
Penn Theater
Today the Penn Cinemas is an abandoned building, a ruin that calls back to the time of bright marquee signs and silver screens. The Paramount Theater's Service Corp., based out of Altoona, constructed…
Nitroglycerin Explosion of 1927
It was a seemingly normal Thursday morning on June 9, 1927 in the Lick Hill village just outside of the city of Butler, Pennsylvania. The relative calm of the summer morning was suddenly shattered,…