Formed March 12, 1800 from Allegheny County. Named for General Richard Butler, Revolutionary officer. A young George Washington had crossed this area, 1753. County seat was established at Butler in 1803, and the county was home of the Harmony . . . — — Map (db m42636) HM
"To those who died... honor and eternal rest, to those still in bondage... remembrance and hope, to those who returned... gratitude and peace."
1965
Thomas E. Czzowitz
Douglas V. Andre
1966
William Grubb
Charles F. . . . — — Map (db m284974) HM
Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941 V-E Day May 8, 1945 V-J Day Sept. 2, 1945 End WWII Dec. 31, 1946
This memorial is dedicated to all U.S. military veterans of Butler County that served their country during World War II
1941-1946
KIA . . . — — Map (db m285067) WM
Presented to the Citizens of Butler County, Pennsylvania, in deep appreciation of their untiring efforts in cooperation with the United States Army in creating, originating, developing and building the first "general purpose" vehicle for the . . . — — Map (db m284973) HM
In memory of
General Richard Butler
Born in Ireland
One of five brothers soldiers distinguished for bravery and devoted service
Captain 2d. Pennsylvania Battalion 1776
Colonel 9th. Pennsylvania Regiment 1777
Major General United . . . — — Map (db m42637) HM
In honor and remembrance of the heroes and victims in the fight against terrorism and to celebrate the enduring spirit of all Americans — — Map (db m284939) WM
In September 1940 a team headed by Karl Probst delivered to the United States Army a prototype for the World War II jeep. This small, four-wheel drive vehicle was produced by the American Bantam Car Company, located one block east. Here, Bantam . . . — — Map (db m42638) HM
(Front):
Korea
1950 - 1953
Freedom is not free
"The forgotten war"
(Rear):
Killed in Action
36,915
Wounded in Action
103,284
Missing in Action
8,177
This monument stands in memory of and . . . — — Map (db m284935) WM
Ackerson Joseph B.
Acre Keith
Adams Matthew J.
Amos Charles K.
Antolec John A.
Arblaster Ronald L.
Bajcz, Jr. William J.
Barnhart Chad M.
Beck Jason
Behr David L.
Bellis Travis L.
Bender . . . — — Map (db m285132) WM
Our Silent Defender
Dedicated July 4, 1894 by the People of Butler County in memory of all who gave their lives in the year of the Rebellion.
Butler Co. War Veterans Committee
May 30, 1980
☆ ☆ ☆
We must . . . — — Map (db m284992) WM
Pullman-Standard's history began in Butler when John Hansen and "Diamond" Jim Brady founded a new company - Standard Steel Car, which revolutionized freight car production by using standard products from steel mills of the era. Construction of . . . — — Map (db m285812) HM
This railcar, MILW 101340, was built in June of 1974 at Pullman-Standard, Butler, as part of a 300 car order for the Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific RR. The 4750 cu. ft. capacity covered hopper served 36 years hauling grain between the farmlands . . . — — Map (db m285851) HM
This marker commemorates the men and women who achieved American independence. These Patriots, believing in the noble cause of liberty, fought valiantly to found a new nation.
1775 - 1783 — — Map (db m284730) HM
In honor of the Merchant Marine who faithfully served their country during W.W. II.
The Merchant Marine provided the greatest sealift in history, delivering 97% of all war supplies and participated in every invasion.
The U.S. Merchant . . . — — Map (db m284980) WM
In honor of all Veterans who served the
"United States of America"
and those who made the supreme sacrifice
In Memory Of
SGT Carl J. Morgain
KIA May 22, 2005
IRAQ
1964 - 2005
In Memory Of
Lt Col Michael E. McLaughline
KIA . . . — — Map (db m276401) WM
In honor and remembrance of the heroes and victims in the fight against terrorism and to celebrate the enduring spirit of all Americans — — Map (db m284702) HM
This memorial is dedicated in sincere tribute to the living and dead whose valiant efforts and unselfish sacrifices have made America great.
God grant that the liberty of humanity won only by brave men and women and vigilantly guarded shall . . . — — Map (db m284720) WM
In Honor and Remembrance of the heroes and the victims in the fight against terrorism and to celebrate the enduring spirit of all Americans — — Map (db m285879) HM
At Cooper Cabin in 1823 a Methodist Class met, grew and in 1854 became the Knox Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church. It moved to Cabot in 1894, and exists in 2000 as the Cabot United Methodist Church. — — Map (db m284740) HM
Organized in 1806, Plains Presbyterian Church was the first church to form in Cranberry Township. The first services were held in groves and a tent. A log church was built in 1820 replaced by a brick church in 1839 with the present frame structure . . . — — Map (db m44425) HM
Crider's Corners, Cranberry Township's main intersection and business district, was located here at Old Perry Highway (now Dutilh Road) and Old Mars/Freedom Road. Site of Meeder's Market and Crider's Garage. From 1908 to 1931 Crider's Corners was a . . . — — Map (db m40574) HM
You are now standing in front of Sample School. Also known as School #5, it was built around 1874 and was one of six one-room schoolhouses that taught 1st8th grade students within Cranberry Township. To best preserve, the schoolhouse was relocated . . . — — Map (db m276432) HM
A major Indian path between the Forks of the Ohio (now Pittsburgh) and the Seneca town of Venango (now Franklin) passed through here. On December 27, 1753, George Washington came this way with frontier scout Christopher Gist as they returned from . . . — — Map (db m160922) HM
We Will Never Forget
This monument stands in memory of all those who lost their lives as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, with clear blue skies, four airplanes . . . — — Map (db m284570) HM WM
The Miracle League of Southwestern Pennsylvania is dedicated to helping all children with special needs fulfill their dreams of playing organized baseball. The three bats in this sculpture represent the three pillars of a Miracle Leaguer's . . . — — Map (db m276494) HM
Cranberry Township's first post office, Ogle, opened 1850 in the home of Thomas Robinson on old Perry Highway (now Dutilh Road) .09 mile south of here. The post office and Ogle placename later moved to this location where postal services alternated . . . — — Map (db m44378) HM
J Anderson W Campbell G Coast S Costa C M Day C R Day J S Day
F Ease E Hosich C Gillespie R Gillespie D Hilliard F Hilliard
E Hutchison K Mahood W Mahood C Martin L Martin R Morgan
H Murrin E Nellis L . . . — — Map (db m276405) HM
In memory of our men and women who gave their lives during Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom and the War on Terror — — Map (db m278062) WM
Evans City was the central filming location for the historic and influential 1968 film.
Added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1999. — — Map (db m250527) HM
(Front):
Co. C 4th Pa. Cav.
Wash. McCallum
John W. Carr
John C. Davis
Geo. M. Graham
John Haslett
Polk Samele
Benj. F. Walters
Bruce McDormicky
Reese Harris, Co. E
Co. D 11th Pa. Reserves
Capt. Wm. . . . — — Map (db m284666) WM
Dedicated to those of
Evans City
and vicinity who served in the wars of our country so we may enjoy the freedom that is our heritage — — Map (db m278061) WM
For those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.
Harmony - Evans City
Memorial Post 499
Dedicated to all veterans who served their country in war and peace. — — Map (db m277792) WM
Adding to Night of the Living Dead's "direct cinema" approach, the filmmakers cast their motion picture using family, friends and colleagues within the local community. Longtime Evans City residents Phillip and Ella Mae Smith, Randy Burr, and . . . — — Map (db m292392) HM
Night of the Living Dead was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1999 for being a "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant part of American cinema. It was due to budgetary limitations that its makers eschewed the use of . . . — — Map (db m292394) HM
In 1967, a group of Pittsburgh-based filmmakers led by George A. Romero decided to venture into the business of making feature-length motion pictures. Using their own money and equipment obtained as professionals in commercial film, television . . . — — Map (db m292395) HM
Five years after filming Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero returned to Evans City to produce his fourth feature film. Released in 1973, The Crazies (a.k.a. Code Name: Trixie) depicts the military takeover of a small American town in an . . . — — Map (db m292390) HM
Chaplain, 78th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-64. He was credited as Pennsylvanias first Catholic Civil War chaplain and the only one serving a chiefly non-Catholic regiment. Despite the anti-Catholic prejudice of the era, he gained a . . . — — Map (db m42641) HM
For centuries before the European settlement of Western Pennsylvania, Native Americans camped and hunted along Brush Creek, traveling through what is now Cranberry Township along the Venango Trail.
During America's colonial period, depicted . . . — — Map (db m276985) HM
Returning to Virginia from his historic visit at Fort Le Boeuf, Washington used the adjacent Venango Indian Trail. In this locality, on Dec. 27, 1753, he narrowly escaped death, being shot at by an Indian less than fifteen paces from him. — — Map (db m250528) HM
On the flats of the east side of Connoquenessing Creek, one hundred rods east of this spot, Major George Washington, then a youth twenty-one years of age, narrowly escaped death, being shot at by a hostile Indian, less than fifteen steps distant, on . . . — — Map (db m250529) HM
[Top left painting caption reads] George Washington in his Virginia Regiment uniform. Painting by Charles Willson Peale
On November 30, 1753, 21-year-old George Washington, a major in the Virginia Regiment, camped . . . — — Map (db m244472) HM
The Harmonist Society built the stone foundation of this barn in 1805, as part of a sheep shed for its growing flock. It served the Harmonists until they left Butler County in 1814. The barn was enlarged in the mid-1800's by David Ziegler, son of . . . — — Map (db m155437) HM
Burial place of Harmonist Society, 1805-15. Graves were not marked. The stone wall was built in 1869, after the Harmonists had returned from Indiana and settled at "Old Economy," in Beaver County. — — Map (db m40434) HM
First home of Harmony Society, founded 1804, by George Rapp and German followers. In 1814 moved to New Harmony, Indiana, and settled at Economy in present Ambridge, Beaver County, in 1825. — — Map (db m40359) HM
Harmony Society leader George Rapp could meditate at the isolated seat carved into the rock outcrop above, and watch over town activity. The Harmonists grew wine grapes on the treeless slope. Their hilltop music pavilion and the seat were reached by . . . — — Map (db m160502) HM
Inspiration of and supported generously by
Thomas R. Murray
Log house and support donated by
P.W. Carothers Family
Textor School Road log house dismantled,
relocated and reconstructed by and with
donation support of
Harmony Museum . . . — — Map (db m244469) HM
Church organized 1816 by Abraham Ziegler, purchaser of the Harmonist property. The Reverend John Boyer was the first pastor. Present stone church built 1825. — — Map (db m276615) HM
The windmill that you see before you was discovered and dismantled in 1995, in
Pra[i]rie du Sac, Wisconsin, by Mars Historical Society member Cliff
Atkinson... and then purchased by the Mars Historical Society in 2006. It was
restored by . . . — — Map (db m276416) HM
Now a Mars landmark this caboose was built in 1921. The Mars Area History & Landmarks Society acquired it in 1989 from the Sandala Farm on Cashdollar Road where it was used as a club house for the Boy Scouts. The caboose was damaged by fire on one . . . — — Map (db m306969) HM
SAMUEL ANDERSON KENNEDY, 1826-1896, pioneer settler of Mars Boro,
first known as Overbrook Station, deeded this track of ground to the
Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1877. Kennedy, being a religious
prosperous farmer active in civic and . . . — — Map (db m276408) HM
The engine displayed here was donated to the MARS
HISTORICAL SOCIETY by well known disc jockey, MR. JAN
SMITH, of Butler, Pa. It was partially restored by society
members, but does not currently operate due to a cracked
cylinder head.
This . . . — — Map (db m276415) HM
Commissioned 21 December 1963
Decommissioned 1 February 1993
A combat stores ship manned by 430 officers and enlisted personnel
First ship to use UH-460 Sea Knight helicopter for faster record setting replenishments of the US Naval . . . — — Map (db m250437) HM WM
This building was a passenger waiting station on the electric
streetcar Pittsburgh & Butler Street Railway.
In the early twentieth century (ca 1907) there were two parallel
railroads serving Mars. One is where the existing railroad is . . . — — Map (db m276413) HM
In honor of the men and women of the Meridian Community who served in the military forces of the United States during World Wars I and II and in memoriam of the following who made the supreme sacrifice in World War II
☆ William Leroy . . . — — Map (db m284679) WM
One of the greatest pitchers in baseball history. With the Philadelphia Athletics "Rube" Waddell led the American League in strikeouts 6 straight years, topping 20 wins in each of his first 4 years. During his career he won 193 games. He was known . . . — — Map (db m40357) HM
Buffalo Twp. Honor Roll
In memory of those who served in World War II
Honor Roll Committee
Cunningham, Doris
Farrell, Alyce
Melton, Naomi
Mitchell, Irene
Phillips, Marion A.
Ralston, Elizabeth L.
Reed, . . . — — Map (db m285210) WM
July 4th, 1854 - David and Mary Jane Kelly donated this ground for a school house for the sum of one dollar.
1867 - The first recorded date classes were held. Matthew N. Greer was teacher that year. He had attended the Witherspoon Institute . . . — — Map (db m284745) HM
Special thanks to Henry Spreng for providing the inspiration for the memorial
In memory of Harry Spreng
WWII US Army
Sarver Veterans Association Charter Members
James M. Bricker
Rowland Burz
Logan Cribbs
Willard B. . . . — — Map (db m284741) WM
Bernigau's residence and cabinet shop were locate here, with the wareroom across the street. Dr. Moore's dentist office here in 1940s. — — Map (db m163502) HM
Frederick Bauman, stonecutter, has his Saxonburg marble works next to his house. The Bauman Family lived here from 1865 until 1921. — — Map (db m163514) HM
William Berger had a store here in 1910. George Aderhold lived here in the 1930s and started Saxonburg Ceramics in the backyard. — — Map (db m163516) HM
This building has been a hotel since 1835. Earlier names were: The Vogeley House, The Belvedere House, The Laube House, & The Central Hotel. — — Map (db m163518) HM
This little building housed a "Spider Coil" at the base of the KDKA 718 foot broadcasting tower at Saxonburg. It provided a smooth path for the 50,000 watt signal to the world. — — Map (db m57455) HM
Originally part of the J. Heinrich Muder farm, the Neubert family owned this building 1923-1949. Milton Neubert's meat market was here. — — Map (db m163520) HM
Designed and built by Saxonburg Founder
John A. Roebling
The replica donated to the community by
"The Saxony Shrine Club"
2001 A.D.
Reldon W. Cooper, President
Ralph B. Henderson, Project Director — — Map (db m258796) HM
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