The first oil well in the world was dug in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859.
Less than 20 years later, the boom would make Butler County a world leader in oil production. Today the state is still k.
PORTAGE A mural painted by Portage Area High School students on Wednesday will return a staircase and a small view of a local train station back to its original 1926 location in the Lee Street tunnel under the rail line. The mural is 8 feet wide and almost 20 feet high. When it’s completed, […]