Mercer County Historical Society
Mercer County History

Article List

Vol. I, No.1, Spring 1971  SOLD OUT
The Hanna House and the Underground Railroad
by Dr. Kenneth Martin
Redware Pottery of Pennsylvania by Pamela A. Martin
The Library & Archives by Dr. Donald W. Whisenhunt

Vol. I, No.2, Fall 1971  SOLD OUT
A Brief History of the Underground Railroad and an Account of Its Possible Existence in Butler and Mercer Counties
by Robert F. Lark
Thiel College Comes to Greenville by Roy H. Johnson
Reflections of the Civil War: the Beil Brothers' Papers by Eugene Baker and David Davis
Conscription, Draft-dodging and Desertion in Mercer County during the Civil War by Dennis Ziccardi

Vol. II, No.1, Spring 1972  SOLD OUT
Notes Toward a Theater History of Greenville
by Patricia G. Houpt and Donald W. Whisenhunt
Prohibition in Mercer County by James Seeley
Camp Reynolds by Thomas Batha
Hugh Mercer by Joan Forbes

Vol. II, No.2, Fall 1972 Special 25th Anniversary Issue
The Mercer County Historical Society: The First Twenty-Five Years
by Donald W. Whisenhunt

Vol. III, No. 1, Spring 1973
We Were on Our Way by Russell M. Shontz
Peggy Come Home for Christmas by George Swetman
Mercer County Hotels by Donald W. Whisenhunt
The Legend of Hell's Hollow by David F. Bower

Vol. III, No.2, Fall 1973-Special Helen Black Miller Memorial Chapel Issue

Vol. IV, No.1, Spring 1974  SOLD OUT
Alfred Mossman Landon: The Shenango Valley's Native Son and the Election of 1936 by David Miller
The Depression and the Farmer by Pearl Ann Longietti

Vol. IV, No.2, Fall 1974
General Attitudes of Mercer Countians During the Civil War by Richard E. Rickert

Vol. V, No.1, Spring 1975-Special McClain Print Shop Dedication Issue
A Brief History and Comparison of the Pymatuning and Shenango Reservoirs by John Parimuha

Vol. V, No.2, Fall 1975
A Flag of History by Anne Raisch
Observations After Reading The North Pole by Robert E. Peary and John W. Goodsell's Diary by Margaret C. Miller

Vol. VI, 1976 (Beginning of One-a-year issues)
A History of Early Settlement in Northwestern Pennsylvania by Barbara J. Olsson
Special Pieces by Anne Raisch
A History of Liberty Township by Anne Harker Dayton

Vol. VII, 1977
Information for Everybody by Anne Raisch
The Circuit Rider in Mercer County by Joannie Appleseed
St. Edmund's Church by Beth Foote

Vol. VIII, 1978
Nineteenth Century Blast Furnaces of Mercer County by Anne I. Raisch
Mercer County's Oldest Pipe Organ by Frank Stearns
The Log Cabin in America by Cheryl L. Yunt

Vol. IX, 1979
Nineteenth Century Blast Furnaces of Mercer County: A Postscript by John R. White, Ph.D.
The Shadow of Things Past by Anne I. Raisch

Vol. X, 1980
John W. Goodsell and the Dash to the North Pole by Donald W. Whisenhunt
Polar Surgeon-The Arctic Adventures of Dr. John W. Goodsell by George Bleasby

Vol. XI, 1981
Mercer in the Spanish-American War by James Mennell
This House of Logs by Anne Raisch
The Stevenson Mansion by Bruce Englebaugh

Vol. XII, 1982
Indian "Cemeteries" In Northwestern Pennsylvania and The Sole Survivor: The Heydrick Farm Graveyard by William B. Moore
Mercer in 1921 by James Mennell
The Alley of the Gargoyles: A Personal Memoir by Gail Habyshaw
The South Sharon Volunteer Fire Department by Annie I. Raisch

*Note: No issues for 1983-86

Vol. XIII, 1987
Benjamin Stokely: A Memoir edited by Margaret Olson
Norman "Slim" Hassel-1905 edited by James Mennell
The Old Mercer Fairgrounds by Gail Habbyshaw
A Letter Home by Oscar Powers
The Pierce Family by John L. Morrison

*Note: No issues for 1988-89

Vol. XIV, 1990  SOLD OUT
The Keystone Ordinance Works: Evacuation and Relocation of the Greenwood Township Residents by LuAnn Rung
The Economic Development of Mercer County During the Nineteenth Century by Lyle Turner

*Note: No issue for 1991-94

Vol. XV, 1995
African-American Inventive Genius: James Elmer Matthews (1886-1976) and William Hunter Dammond (1873-1956) by Roland C. Barksdale-Hall

*Note: no issues for 1996-2008

Vol. I (Vol. XVI Old Series), Fall 2008

"There Goes the Walking Artillery" (The Story of the Perrine Brothers in the Civil War) by Timothy Bennett
Hilands Murder, 1885
by Mark S. Painter

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