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founding pioneer, Jeremiah Sturgeon. Jeremiah pioneer, founding

Listed on the National Register, it was the home of the son of a a of son the of home the was it Register, National the on Listed

genealogy and other historical records related to the Fairview area. area. Fairview the to related records historical other and genealogy

use as a house museum, meeting site, and depository for artifacts, artifacts, for depository and site, meeting museum, house a as use

Society members have restored this c. 1838 “salt box” house for for house box” “salt 1838 c. this restored have members Society Sun, 2 to 4 pm, or by appointment by or pm, 4 to 2 Sun,

Day—Halloween Memorial

from its long history. long its from www.fairviewhistoryeriecountypa.org

[email protected] furnished with desks, flags, globes and other school memorabilia memorabilia school other and globes flags, desks, with furnished

474-5855 (814) • 16415 PA Fairview, is schoolhouse The campus. School Northwestern Albion’s

553, Box PO Road, Avonia 4302 to restored and relocated was It years. 101 for use in was that

The Sturgeon House Sturgeon The schoolhouse one-room 1853 an is Museum School Valley The

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(814) 756-4764 (All year) (All 756-4764 (814)

Seasonal hours. Call for information. for Call hours. Seasonal 16401 PA Albion,

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regularly. Woodland hiking trails are open. are trails hiking Woodland regularly.

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Museum Society Museum history demonstrations and educational programs are also offered offered also are programs educational and demonstrations history

School Valley Memorial Museum) feature period rooms and exhibits. Living Living exhibits. and rooms period feature Museum) Memorial

1858 Battles Farmhouse and the 1861 Charlotte Elizabeth Battles Battles Elizabeth Charlotte 1861 the and Farmhouse Battles 1858

on 130 acres of farm and woodlands. The Battles Museums (the (the Museums Battles The woodlands. and farm of acres 130 on

Tues & Sat, 9 am to Noon to am 9 Sat, & Tues located is site this Reed, Georgiana by Society the to Bequeathed

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Edinboro histories, histories of local organizations and other other and organizations local of histories histories, Edinboro

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with pieces fitting to the late 19 late the to fitting pieces with Century and functions as a house house a as functions and Century

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an 1861 Italianate-style home. The home has been refurbished refurbished been has home The home. Italianate-style 1861 an

Battles Museums of Rural Life Rural of Museums Battles

The Historical Society offices are located in the Doucette House, House, Doucette the in located are offices Society Historical The

126 Water Street, Edinboro, PA 16412 • (814) 734-6109 (814) • 16412 PA Edinboro, Street, Water 126

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Doucette House Doucette Memorial Day—Labor Day: Sun, 2 pm to 4 pm 4 to pm 2 Sun, Day: Day—Labor Memorial

Society/ Historical Area Edinboro a model train layout in the lower level. level. lower the in layout train model a

also meets and maintains maintains and meets also Club Railroad Model Valley Elk The

and an Underground Railroad exhibit are also on display. display. on also are exhibit Railroad Underground an and May-Oct: Wed-Sun, 11 am to 5 pm 5 to am 11 Wed-Sun, May-Oct:

manufactured in Girard. Period furnishings, photos, newspapers newspapers photos, furnishings, Period Girard. in manufactured

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toys, Marx of collection large a has It 1850s. the of owner

and local history archives. Educational and music events are offered offered are events music and Educational archives. history local and

showcases memorabilia of Dan Rice, famous clown and circus circus and clown famous Rice, Dan of memorabilia showcases

specimens botanical of collection a houses also It horticulture.

The museum, home of the West County Historical Association, Association, Historical County West the of home museum, The

and history gardening, farming, for passion family Goodell

botanical garden and arboretum. The site reflects the the reflects site The arboretum. and garden botanical oriented westcountyhistorical.com

774-3653 (814) education- an as use for Goodell Carrie and Margaret sisters by

Once the Homestead of the Goodell Family, 78 acres were donated donated were acres 78 Family, Goodell the of Homestead the Once 522 Main Street E, Girard PA 16417 PA Girard E, Street Main 522

of Local History Local of www.goodellgardens.org

Hazel Kibler Museum Museum Kibler Hazel 734-6699 (814)

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Association/ Historical 221 Waterford Street, PO Box 156, Edinboro, PA 16412 PA Edinboro, 156, Box PO Street, Waterford 221

Goodell Gardens & Homestead & Gardens Goodell County West

Erie Art Museum Watson-Curtze Erie Maritime 1 411 State Street, 4 Mansion 7 Museum/ Erie, PA 16501 • (814) 459-5477 (A Property of the Erie County Flagship Niagara Historical Society) (New entrance on 5th Street, 150 East Front Street, Ste. 100, between State and French) 356 West Sixth Street, Erie PA 16507 Erie, PA 16507 • (814) 452-2744 [email protected] (814) 871-5790 [email protected] www.erieartmuseum.org [email protected] www.flagshipniagara.org www.eriecountyhistory.org The tells the story of Erie’s role in The Erie Art Museum is a non-profit, member-supported The Watson-Curtze Mansion stands as a symbol of the upper history, focusing on the dramatic events of the Battle of in community organization located in the Old Custom’s House, class lifestyle of the 1890s in Erie. The Mansion is listed on the 1813. When in port, the US Brig Niagara is a major “exhibit” available a beautiful and historic 1839 Greek Revival building. The National Register. Located on “Millionaires’ Row” of the West for tours. Historical artifacts, interactive exhibits, and dramatic videos building served as the Bank of the US, Erie Branch, and is Sixth Street Historic District, it provides an opportunity to view bring the Battle and the Age of Fighting Sail to life. Other exhibits tell on the National Register. The collection contains over 6,000 the architecture and craftsmanship of the stained glass windows, the story of the USS Michigan/Wolverine, the US Navy’s Iron Steamer, objects and includes fine examples of American ceramics, friezes, stone/marble work and woodwork that went into building and explore Erie’s ever-changing Bayfront: historic lighthouses, life- Japanese prints, Tibetan thangkas, Chinese porcelains, Indian these mansions. bronzes and more. saving, fishing, the harbor and industry, as well as maritime artwork. Wed-Sat, 11 am to 4 pm; Sun, 1 to 4 pm The Museum recently added on a major expansion, the first Admission Charged History comes alive when you sail aboard the Flagship Niagara. LEED-certified building in the city of Erie complete with a Please visit the website to learn about educational sailing opportunities, green rooftop. and to check whether Niagara is in port for your Museum visit. Erie Planetarium Tues-Sat, 11 am to 5 pm; Sun, 1 to 5 pm Mon-Sat, 9 am to 5 pm; Sun Noon to 5 pm (A Property of the Erie County Historical Society) Admission Charged 5 Nov—Mar, closed on Sun-Wed Free to members and free to all on Wednesdays. 356 West Sixth Street, Erie, PA 16507 • (814) 871-5790 Admission Charged [email protected] www.eriecountyhistory.org Erie County Historical Society The Erie Planetarium offers various astronomy programs throughout Museum of Erie GE History 2 419 State Street, Erie, PA 16501 • (814) 454-1813 the year for all ages. The lobby is filled with hands-on, interactive 8 2901 East Lake Road, Bldg 1-C, Erie, PA 16531 • (814) 875-2494 [email protected] activities and interesting objects to view. Check the website for (Enter through GE Franklin Avenue gate) www.eriecountyhistory.org current show times and dates. Group tours are also available. Located in Lawrence Park, the display at the former General Electric The Erie County History Center is home to the administrative Admission Charged Community Center includes photographs and other artifacts that offices of the Erie County Historical Society, the 1839 Cashier’s deal with early plant history, foundry operations, the apprentice House, the ECHS Library & Archives, and the Museum of Erie program, locomotive assembly, refrigerator manufacture, World County History. The Erie County History Center also houses Firefighters War II activities and DC motor products. Also on site is an operating the Museum Store, which sells local and regional history books, Historical Museum model train layout (HO Gauge). historic prints and more. 6 428 Chestnut Street, Erie, PA 16507 Tues, 8:30-11:30 am. June-Aug: Sat, 10 am to 2 pm; Tues-Sat, 11 am to 4 pm (814) 456-5969 Sep-May: first Sat only, or by appointment Library & Archives free to public. Admission Charged Lawrence Park Erie Society for 9 Historical Society 4230 Iroquois Avenue, 3 Genealogical Research The Museum is housed in the old #4 Erie Firehouse built in 1903. Erie, PA 16511 Erie County History Center, 2nd floor/H.O. Hirt Reading Room Its two floors contain more than 1,500 items of fire department (814) 899-1505 • (814) 899-5778 419 State Street, Erie, PA 16501 • (814) 454-1813, Ext. 29 memorabilia. Displays include antique fire apparatus, badges, [email protected] [email protected] ribbons, fire alarm systems, helmets, uniforms, masks and antique Lawrence Park www.pa-roots.com/erie fire extinguishers, plus an 1823 hand tub, an 1830 hand-pulled Historical Society pumper and other apparatus. You can turn in a fire alarm, hear the ESGR conducts beginning genealogy workshops, field trips, bells ring and see the alarm come in. The Society has a collection of local artifacts, house histories, photos, cemetery readings and research for out-of-town requests. blueprints, memoirs, school yearbooks, banners and scrapbooks Membership meetings are the second Tuesday of every June-Aug: Sat, 11 am to 4 pm; Sun, 1 to 4 pm from Lawrence Park, a well-preserved company (GE) planned and month, except January. Sep-Oct: Sat & Sun, 11 am to 4 pm built town unique in the region. Admission Charged Call ahead for availability of volunteers. Thurs, 2 to 4 pm; Sat, Noon to 2 pm, or by appointment Special exhibits last Sat of July Harborcreek Hornby School Restoration Fort LeBoeuf 10 Historical Society 13 Society/Hornby School Museum 17 Historical Society 5451 Merwin Lane, 10000 Station Road, North East, PA 16428 PO Box 622, Waterford, PA 16441 Erie PA 16510 9691 Kimball Road, Wattsburg, PA 16442 (814) 899-4447 (814) 725-5680 or (814) 739-2720 Judson House [email protected] [email protected] (Headquarters for the Society) www.harborcreekhistory.org Corner of High & E. 1st Street, A restored and working one-room schoolhouse, c. 1873; it contains Waterford, PA 16441 many original desks, books, a stove and other school memorabilia (814) 796-6105 The Society is located in the Knowledge Center Building, which on display. Most artifacts are hands-on for use in educational www.fortleboeufhistoricalsociety.org houses historical archives for genealogical research and excellent programs including a working pump and a functioning outhouse. records on Harborcreek families, cemeteries and other history. This Greek Revival house was built in 1820 by Amos Judson who The Society archives include a reference library, cemetery lists, June-Oct: Sun, 1 to 5 pm owned the Eagle Hotel from 1842 to 1853. It functions as a house or by appointment: hornbyschool.org journals, tax records and a school collection including most of the museum displaying artifacts of the 1850s and also contains archival Harborcreek yearbooks. On display are old photos and articles of and genealogical material of the Waterford area. It is owned by the old time Harborcreek landmarks and families. Wattsburg Historical Society/ PHMC and administered by the Society. Wattsburg Museum Wed, 1 to 3 pm; Sat, 10 am to Noon 14 Apr-Oct: Wed, 9:30 am to 3 pm or by appointment or by appointment 14438 Main Street, PO Box 95, Wattsburg, PA 16442 (814) 462-7637 The Museum is situated in a restored grocery store with a period Eagle Hotel North East Historical Society/ (Sugar and Spice Restaurant) Museum kitchen, living room and bedroom of the early 1900s. It features 18 11 photo displays of local and Erie County history and extensive Corner of High & W. 1st Street, Waterford, PA 16441 25 Vine Street, PO Box 483, North East, PA 16428 genealogical records. The second floor is used for meetings and as a (814) 796-0060 (814) 403-8709 • [email protected] depository for archival material. The museum features changing displays of local history. It is The Eagle Hotel was built in 1826 by Thomas King. It served Memorial Day—Labor Day: 2nd & 4th Sat, 1 to 4 pm located inside the 1880 town hall, which served as the town’s as a stagecoach stop on the Erie-Pittsburgh line. It functioned fire hall from 1885 to 1996. continuously as a hotel/restaurant until it was purchased in 1977 by the Fort LeBoeuf Historical Society. It has been restored and The North East Arts Council is on the second floor. Corry Area Historical Society/ Corry Museum listed on the National Register. The first floor functions as a 15 restaurant; the second floor contains two museum bedrooms and June-Dec: Fri-Sat, 4:30 to 8:30 pm or by appointment 945 Mead Avenue, PO Box 107, Corry, PA 16407 the third floor is a ballroom, that are open during restaurant hours. (814) 664-4749 Lake Shore Railway [email protected] Restaurant hours: Tues-Fri, 11 am to 8 pm; Sat, 7 am to 8 pm; Sun, 7 am to 5 pm 12 Historical Society/ Corry began as an important railroad junction during ’s Lake Shore Railway oil boom in the 1860s. The Corry Museum displays artifacts from Museum pioneer life to the first “modern” oil refinery up to present-day Fort LeBoeuf Museum manufacturing. A 1930s Climax “logging” steam locomotive is 31 Wall Street at Robinson, 123 S. High Street, Waterford, PA 16441 PO Box 571, North East, PA 16428 another highlight. Also houses archives of the Corry area. 19 (814) 732-2575 (814) 725-1911 Memorial Day—Labor Day: Sat & Sun, 2 to 4 pm [email protected] Archives: Thurs, 10 am to 2 pm or by appointment The Fort LeBoeuf Museum showcases the struggle between France www.grape-track.org and Britain for colonial empire in the area. Numerous exhibits include those of Native Americans, French and Indian, the fur trade The Lake Shore Railway Museum is a restored 1899 passenger Union City Historical Society/ and the ultimate triumph of an independent America. Also featured train depot with extensive displays of 19th and 20 Century 16 Union City Museum is a slide showTemporarily detailing George Washington’s Closed 1753 visit to the railroadiana. GE and Heisler locomotives built in Erie are on 11 S. Main Street, Union City, PA 16438 French Fort commemorated by his statue across the street. Owned exhibit, plus a dining car, caboose, Pullman sleeping cars and (814) 438-7573 by the PHMC, the site is administered by Edinboro University. antique freight cars. This interesting museum in a one hundred-year-old building Memorial Day—Labor Day: Wed-Sun, Noon to 4 pm houses collections that reflect local history from rugged 1797 Apr, May, Sep & Oct: Weekends Noon to 4 pm frontier settlement to the space age. The building is owned by the Group tours by appointment Union City Borough and maintained by the Historical Society. Mon, Thurs & Sat, 10 am to 2 pm, or by appointment

Lighthouses cast iron replacement tower was the keeper climbed to the top of one of the first lighthouses Covered Bridge Admission free unless otherwise moved in 1882 and moved again the tower every four hours to re- on the Great Lakes, had to be noted. to the present site in 1940. fill the oil lamp. The light is now demolished because it began • Brotherton’s Crossing automated and the lighthouse is to sink. Another lighthouse Bridge (1875) • North Pier Light • Presque Isle Lighthouse a private residence for park staff. built in 1857 lasted only 10 The Brotherton’s Crossing Presque Isle State Park year. The current lighthouse • Erie Land Lighthouse Bridge over LeBoeuf Creek, The lighthouse, located at the The lighthouse, located on the is about 200 feet east of the located E of Waterford on Lighthouse Street, Erie east end of the channel leading north shore of Presque Isle State original site. Niemeyer Road. into Presque Isle Bay, was built park at Lighthouse Beach, was The current lighthouse was built • Perry Monument in 1858 to replace the original completed in 1873. The tower is in 1867 and is 40 feet tall with 69 Presque Isle State Park wooden beacon destroyed by 68 feet tall, access via 72 steps. steps to the lantern room. The at Misery Bay a sailboat in 1857. The 34-foot Before electric bulbs were used, original lighthouse, built in 1818,

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