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Posted by Amy Fox on Mar 25, 2021 in | Comments Off As 2021 comes into focus, PHMC’s Trails of History sites are providing exceptional service to the public through online offerings. The annual celebration of Charter Day, Pennsylvania’s birthday, will take place online. Our sites and museums continue to build their portfolios of virtual programs and tours, from lectures to trivia nights to online exhibits. Follow PHMC or your favorite site’s...
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The Spirited History of Pennsylvania Saloons

Posted by Tyler Stump on Feb 17, 2021 in | Comments Off In 1905 and 1906 Charles and Linnie Ross of Stroudsburg traveled throughout Pennsylvania, photographing residents and buildings in communities they passed. Hoping to sell their prints for a handsome profit, they made sure to shoot the most popular spots in each town. Unsurprisingly, the Rosses photographed dozens of saloons in their travels, including this one in Williamsport. By 1851 saloons...
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After Suffrage: Pennsylvania’s Inaugural Class of Women Legislators

Posted by Curtis Miner on Nov 25, 2020 in | Comments Off “For one born and reared as this writer was in hidebound Pennsylvania, it is startling to find eight women in the Legislature of that State. Moreover, to learn from their men fellow-members of the natural way they take their place and do their work.” – Ida Tarbell, 1924 “I believe these eight women are going to make an impression. I believe they are going to ask themselves on...
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Craft Brewing: Another Revolution in Pennsylvania

Posted by Lew Bryson on Dec 13, 2016 in | Comments Off The history of brewing beer in Pennsylvania has seen heights of success and pits of disaster. The commonwealth grew from colonial home-brewing roots to become a recognized industrial center, home to some of the most notable brewers in America before the disaster of Prohibition. After bouncing back with Repeal, Pennsylvania clung to its established favorites longer than any other state, savoring...
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A Tradition Brewing

Posted by William Cissna on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off Perhaps not considered as noble as spirits – the clear, silvery gins, the South’s prized bourbons – nor as trendy as wines – particularly California’s pale, refreshing whites – beer, nevertheless, has been a staple of the American lifestyle for more than three centuries. Pennsylvania’s earliest brewing traditions eventually emerged as an influential...
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The Northwest’s Vintners

Posted by Sabina Freeman on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off From an early Old Crusted Port to today’s popular – if not ubiquitous – wine coolers, Erie County wines have been a significant Pennsylvania commodity since 1864. There has been trouble along the way, but the county’s grapes, grown in profusion along the south shore of Lake Erie, have overcome many obstacles and today are a major element in the Commonwealth’s...
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Wayne County: A History Deep and Clear

Posted by Michael O'Malley on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off The Land of Lakes, it might best be called. Its sweeping verdant valleys and velvety golden meadows harbor dozens of picturesque settlements – and more than a hundred natural and artificial lakes. Its resorts teem with summer colonists – primarily expatriate New Yorkers escaping the stifling heat of Manhattan in August – and recall a less frenzied era when there seemed to be...
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Pennsylvania Woman as Politician: Cornelia Bryce Pinchot (1881–1960)

Posted by John Furlow on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off On May 5, 1933, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a chauffeured limousine arrived at a textile factory. From inside the car emerged a tall, slender, red-haired woman whose bearing indicated social standing and purposeful self-confidence. Despite a steady rain, the lady joined a picket line made up of girls from thirteen to eighteen years of age who had struck in protest of working conditions they...
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Brewerytown, USA

Posted by Rich Dochter on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off Nearly everyone has heard of the beer that made Milwaukee famous, but so few have heard of Philadelphia’s Brewerytown. The names of Philadelphia companies – Arnholt and Schaefer, Baltz, Bergner and Engel, Burg and Pfaender, Eble and Herter, Keller, Mueller, Rothacker, and Weger Brothers – are now largely forgotten, supplanted by today’s familiar Blatz, Miller, Pabst,...
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The Lady in Red: Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, Feminist for Social Justice

Posted by Mary Voda on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off Vigorous, rebellious, and perceived by many to be unfashionably independent for a woman of her time and social standing, Cornelia Bryce Pinchot (1881-1960) was irrefutably the Keystone State’s most flamboyant first lady. But she was more than modern, much more than a stylish trendsetter. Pursuing an active public life that she described as “never stale or dull,” she prided...
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