Revolutionary War hero Gen. Marquis de Lafayette’s local legacy has been immortalized in Scenery Hill, thanks to a historic marker that was unveiled to the public on Friday afternoon. The plaque, located at the corner of the National Road and Fava Farm Road, commemorates Lafayette’s ...
The Greene County Historical Society Museum kicked off its 2025 season with an array of historical re-enactments and demonstrations Saturday and Sunday. Past years have launched with a pancake breakfast or a 5K run, said Matt Cumberledge, the GCHS’s executive director. This year, they ...
To hear some people tell it, we are a nation of ignoramuses. Well, not generally. Given America’s standing in the world and the preeminence of its economy, we must be doing something right. But year after year organizations dedicated to civic health or education unleash reports that find ...
Just around the bend on Old Washington Pike, not far from Greentree Road, sits an unassuming church whose brilliant red door, if the stone building and shady property fails to, catches the eye.That red door leads into Old St. Luke's Church, a church whose walls contain centuries' worth of ...
Before there was a Peters Township or even a United States of America, there were the Wright brothers.They were named James and Joshua, and they trekked west with their families to start new lives of uncertainty amid little but the forest and the native people who had preceded them.Various ...
Until the mid-1990s, traffic at the Peters Township East McMurray and Valley Brook roads was controlled by a four-way stop sign.A quarter of a century later, a set of traffic signals barely is adequate to keep up with the nearly constant flow of vehicles, estimated at more than 26,000 daily.For ...
