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COL. CRAWFORD STATUE
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Name: john's grandma
Date: 03/08/2016
Message: I am an old lady


Name: Cool Kids
Date: 02/08/2016
Message: this is good


Name: Kimberly Rummer-Farley
Date: 01/12/2016
Message: So glad to have found your site. I have relatives from Connellsville.


Name: Thomas Lieb
Date: 08/10/2015
Message: Related in some ways to the Soisson Family that settled in Connellsville. Joseph, I believe, was in the brick industry.


Name: Hank Stansbury
Date: 07/11/2015
Message: Am looking for data on Henry Logan, mother's family. 1900 census has his family at 508 W Gibson Av. He's buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery with wife Elizabeth and son. Very nice site you have here.


Name: Janet Brooks Koozer
Date: 09/29/2014
Message: I am interested in any information of the Brooks/Seltzer families. Also- Burch/Gray, Burch/Cole and Cole/Shuff families. Janet Brooks Koozer redduck38@yahoo.com


Name: Beverly Critchfield Moschetti
Date: 09/29/2013
Message: Thank you for writing this book. I can't wait to order it.


Name: Pat Bittinger
Date: 04/28/2013
Message: I lived in So.Connellsville and graduated from CAHS in 1971. Love the history of our towns. I'll have to stop in my next visit to Connellsville.


Name: Pam Bartholomai
Date: 04/22/2013
Message: sORRY i HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO MAKE IT TO ANY MEETINGS.i'LL SEE YOU AT THE RIVER CROSSING.

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1st CITY IN FAYETTE COUNTY, PA

CONNELLSVILLE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
217 West Patterson Avenue
Connellsville, PA 15425


Phone: (724) 628-5344 (K. Hechler)

Phone: ‭(724) 603-3691‬ (S. Lewis)


Email: CHS@connellsvillehistoricalsociety.com

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THE History Of Connellsville Streetcars

Historical Society Member Ed Demuth will host a history of Connellsville street cars. 
at the Connellsville Canteen Monday April 29th from 5:30pm-7pm
Reservations are $10 per person
RSVP 724-603-2093
Only 50 Spots Available!


The Unexpected Life of Sareh B. Cochran      SOLD OUT

Friday June 28th @5:30pm-9:00pm

Our Most recent addition to the Crossing weekend is a Dinner-Lecture calling attention to a local historical event or person held Friday evening before the week-end event at Crawford’s Cabin site.

This event will require a reservation.
Amount is $35/ per person
DINNER is Included

This year, 2024, will be the third Dinner-Lecture bringing an acknowledged historian to Connellsville as the kick-off event of the annual Braddock’s Crossing week-end.
This year the speaker will be Kimberly Hess, author of A LESSER MORTAL:
THE UNEXPECTED LIFE OF SARAH B. COCHRAN.
Ms. Hess (Author) will share stories of this amazing woman, Sarah B. Cochran, and her great influence on local history


THE 21ST ANNUAL BRADDOCKS CROSSING

June 29th-30th, 2024

(MORE DETAILS TO COME)

●The actual Crossing of the Yough will be held each day @ 1pm (Depending on the condition of the Youghiogheny.)

●(If the river is too high, swift and muddy, we will not attempt to cross.)

●We Will Have A Crossing (Weather Permitting) (More Details To Come)

Saturday June 29th:
OPENING CEREMONY: 11AM

Sunday June 30th
OPENING: 12PM

●Our Guests This Year:
-Tri Town Historical Society
-Redstone Rangers
-Valerie Skinner

-Shawn Baird (Rifleman)
-Julie Rossington
-The Homestead Bath House
-Stone Forge & Tissage
-Dunbar Historical Society

●Refreshments are available on site both days. The Historical Society has historical items for sale. Come to the River Crossing and support the Connellsville Area Historical Society.


Sign the Guest Book
      3         

Name: john's grandma
Date: 03/08/2016
Message: I am an old lady


Name: Cool Kids
Date: 02/08/2016
Message: this is good


Name: Kimberly Rummer-Farley
Date: 01/12/2016
Message: So glad to have found your site. I have relatives from Connellsville.


Name: Thomas Lieb
Date: 08/10/2015
Message: Related in some ways to the Soisson Family that settled in Connellsville. Joseph, I believe, was in the brick industry.


Name: Hank Stansbury
Date: 07/11/2015
Message: Am looking for data on Henry Logan, mother's family. 1900 census has his family at 508 W Gibson Av. He's buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery with wife Elizabeth and son. Very nice site you have here.


Name: Janet Brooks Koozer
Date: 09/29/2014
Message: I am interested in any information of the Brooks/Seltzer families. Also- Burch/Gray, Burch/Cole and Cole/Shuff families. Janet Brooks Koozer redduck38@yahoo.com


Name: Beverly Critchfield Moschetti
Date: 09/29/2013
Message: Thank you for writing this book. I can't wait to order it.


Name: Pat Bittinger
Date: 04/28/2013
Message: I lived in So.Connellsville and graduated from CAHS in 1971. Love the history of our towns. I'll have to stop in my next visit to Connellsville.


Name: Pam Bartholomai
Date: 04/22/2013
Message: sORRY i HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO MAKE IT TO ANY MEETINGS.i'LL SEE YOU AT THE RIVER CROSSING.

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