Opened on May 29th, 1897, the former Brinton Park reopened as Cascade Park by the New Castle Traction Company after their purchase from its previous owner, Col. Levi Brinton. The park evolved over time from the nature park, as it originally existed, into a modern amusement park with rides and Read more…
We are excited to inform you about the great news of Cascade Park’s eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places. In a 10 June letter from Elizabeth Rairigh, Chief of the Preservation Services Division of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), the State Historic Preservation Office reaffirmed their Read more…
Carly Plesic is currently an Early American History: Quakers intern for Pleasant Hill Historians for the Spring of 2021 cohort. Carly’s hometown is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is working towards his Master of Arts in History at Duquesne University. Our mission in the Spring of 2021 is to continue research Read more…
In 1882, New Castle’s Opera House ran the matinee “100 Wives”, in which the Mormon religion was seen as a drama on scenes and morality, which is blended with “genuine humor”.[1] While in 1883, the Salt Lake Tribune called the Mormon church “an aristocracy of robbers”.[2] Mormons were at the Read more…
Fires raged on and the native groups became at risk the losing cultural memory of thousands of years of stories, sites, and traditions. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples are some of the native groups that were directly impacted by the recent Australian bush fires.
Organized in 1999, a group of jihadist militants formed an organization which essentially mirrored the already-existent Al-Qaeda of Afghanistan, which has dubbed their common referential name, Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The fifteenth century in Spain (the point from which the discovery of America emanated) was marked by the cessation of the Crusades, by treaties, made between the Moors and Christians of Spain and France, the Porte and Venice, of amity and commerce.
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to travel to New England to visit with some colleagues in Keene, New Hampshire and Boston, Massachusetts. Embracing the cold, I embarked on the journey with the storm behind me.
Recently, NARA has made a controversial move that has directly impacted many’s perceptions of the institution. In January of 2020, the organization utilized a 2017 Women’s March on Washington Getty image for the juxtaposition of their Women’s Suffrage exhibit. However, within this image, particular words referring to anatomical parts of the body and negative references to the President have been purposefully blurred.