We are local people preserving local history in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Our two major areas of focus are the history of Hempfield Township and the early settlers of Westmoreland County.
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The owners of a New Stanton hardware store are demolishing an iconic old restaurant building, intending to expand space for their tenants` businesses along Route 119. The building, best known for housing the former Garden Center Restaurant and Hepler`s Hardware, should be fully demolished by Tuesday...
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With great sadness to post this information. Scott had shared many of his photos, historical documents and knowledge to our society. We have preserved these items and are holding them for future generations. Thank you Scott for all the many donations you made to the local area. R.I.P.
View Scott Ambrose's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
Greensburg's Main Street Memories
A couple of the items in our collection being held for the future Plischke Memorial Museum, at the Baltzer Meyer Center.
The Paul Miller Ruff Genealogy Library will be open Saturday Dec 12 from 10-3 BY APPOINTMENT ONLY! This is the last Saturday we will be open to the public until April. This is our normal shutting down for the winter time. Weather permitting we may be open occasionally by reservation only. Please contact our librarian, Lori Myers ( [email protected] ) for further information.
More items in our collection of historical artifacts awaiting placement of these items in the future Plischke Memorial Museum at the Baltzer Meyer Center.
From the Barnhart Family Files, no names , date or location.
Here is one of the gems in our Family Files, it contains near 2000 family names of Westmoreland county, each file has family information donated from other researchers from the past 25 years. Until we have enough volunteers to digitize this and thousands of others items, the only way to access these file are in person or to contact our researchers through our web page baltzermeyer.com. We are in need of volunteers or donations to digitize our huge collects.
Lincoln Highway Experience
For #MuseumMonday we wanted to share a photo from our archives. Serro's Diner was the place to be, breakfast, lunch or dinner. Rumor had it, their pie was the best🥧☕
Photo from1892, notice there was no Baltzer Meyer Pike at that time , th road from rt 136 was near th bottom of the valley to the right of this photo.
Map of W Pennsylvania Railroad line with train stations 1876.
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On 11/15/2020 at 2 PM, we will attempt to do a live Stream of a presentation of "Greensburg: Then and Now". Hope you tune in to take a trip thru Greensburg traveling on Pittsburgh St starting at the bottom of Toll Gate Hill to Shop-N Save on East Pittsburgh St on https://www.facebook.com/BaltzerMeyer .
Talk to them, ask them questions, record their stories, preserve their history, the future will love your efforts.
A few more items from our collection being held for our future Plischke Memorial Museum at the Baltzer Meyer Center.
Photo of more Items from our collection being held for our future Plischke Memorial Museum at the Baltzer Meyer Center.
Items in our collection can you identify some of them ?
Some recent donations and some existing items, the hand made Quilt from the Harrold Hill Church. we are preserving them for future generations to be displayed in our planned museum.
This is free to anyone who would like to their children learn some of their families history. Enjoy.
One of our new projects , a State of the art Digitizing Area has been upgraded to new storage and work area for all of our existing equipment. We look forward to being able to offer digitizing to our members and the public of their photos, sides, negatives, old movie film, VCR, audio and many other items to preserve for the future. We are looking for volunteers to operate and learn this equipment, you can contact us here to volunteer.
Remember at 2 pm EST today, we will be livestreaming our Ghost Hunters and their findings of a summer's worth of investigating!
Today was the the rummage sale at Apple Hill. The Greensburg Civic Theater was there and they are donating this to Baltzer Meyer as a part of the local history for many years. Apple Hill you may be gone but not forgotten. We will preserve this for future generations to see. Thank you Greensburg Civic Theater.
The 2-4 seating for the October meeting is now full. 18 seats left for the second sitting from 5-7. Contact [email protected] to make your reservation!
This photo shows our now restored Harrold One Room Schoolhouse and the Harrold Zion Lutheran church which is now our center, Located on Baltzer Meyer Pike.
My Harrold Family from 1916, the young man in the cap was my Grandfather Alex Harrold, b 1900. Please share a photo of your Grand parents here with some detail info on the folks in the photo.
Photos from our last donation, all stored away now to inspect each item and to catalog them, a detail photo of some of the collection, a box full of scrapbooks and as promised a detail list of the items that have been donated with the family names.
A small portion of our collection of historical items that one day will be displayed in our museum at our center for Baltzer Meyer Historical Society. We accept donations of these kinds of items to display in the future .
He is some of the items from the donation of collection of family history. Note: this is only 1/8 of this collection donated to Baltzer Meyer Historical Society.
Photos from Baltzer Meyer Historical Society's post
A donation of a collection of local family history, for us this is like Christmas to open each box and catalog the contents, knowing this will only add more knowledge to local history. We have a growing collection of local family history. If this is important to you you need to become a member to help us save this history for future generation. To join go to https://baltzermeyer.com/membership/
Greensburg High School First Tract meet May 1, 1940 at Offutt Field.
https://www.facebook.com/delver.smith/videos/10217323430294709/
Delver Smith
I am loading this video here to see how it works. We have permission to use this from Glenn Smeltzer. I had converted this from 8mm film, using our new digitizing equipment. At Baltzer Meyer Center.
Track Coach was Regis McKnight, Al Turriziani did the broad jump. Bill Shope ran the high hurdles, Edward Elliott threw the javelin, Kenny Johnston ran the low hurdles, Weyandt competed in the high jump, Hutchison ran the 220 yard dash, and Jurella, Kienzle, and Strba threw the discus.
https://www.facebook.com/1141579583/videos/10217206056520438/
A photo of a display of recent artifacts donated to Baltzer Meyer for our future museum.
Westmoreland Cultural Trust
We conclude our tour of The Palace Theatre with a look behind the scenes at areas typically restricted to staff and performers. Thank you for watching our video series and supporting the theatre and Westmoreland Cultural Trust during this crisis.
As the lights remain dim, your assistance is crucial to help carry out our mission to promote performing arts in the region. Please consider making a donation to Westmoreland Cultural Trust so that we are able to fill the theatre with music and share the beauty of art across the community once this pandemic has passed.
DONATIONS: https://www.thepalacetheatre.org/donate/
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Antique tractors at the 2019 Westmoreland Fair!!
Since this Sunday is the first antiques and collectibles event at Historic Hannastown, I searched through my own treasures of items from our area. The calendar plates were my great grandmother's, from two businesses in export. The Greensburg glassware I found at a church rummage sale a year or two ago, part of a set from what I was told. The Greensburg framed prints I found on my travels around the state. The bicentennial items were bought at the festivities in 1973 by my grandma. I was there as a 5 year old kid, but don't remember much about it.
Ribbon Cuttiing at The Harrold Schoolhouse Event Center on March 24, 2019
This week's video is related to the grand opening event at the Harrold Schoolhouse Event Center grand opening celebration that happened today March, 24, 2019. My father and I are both alumni of Hempfield Area Senior High School. Dad graduated in 1961, and I graduated 24 years later in 1985. I decided to see how many teachers were in dad's graduation yearbook that we're still at Hempfield in my graduation yearbook. The end result is this week's photo montage....the accompanying music is "School Daze".
Enjoy Delmont, PA! From the log cabin that is the start of the annual starting point for the pilgrimage of Christmas at Salem Crossroads every December, to the lovely churches that have graced the "northern Pike" what we know as Pittsburgh Street, these churches have been seen by travelers in stagecoaches in the nineteenth century and and through today. The restored water trough that stagecoaches stopped at "back in the day" to water and rest their horses before they headed towards Pittsburgh. If the walls could talk of the old homes on the northern Pike. The Catholic and Methodist churches near "old route 22" are lovely to see. And the old school that educated Delmont children for decades that is now repurposed for many things, including the Delmont Library.
Back by popular demand one last look at Carbone's restaurant, with a few new photos added for those who were not able to get to the restaurant last July. These were on display by the Carbone family in the banquet room during their final week of business. Enjoy everyone!
Remembering an Italian restaurant that closed after 80 years in Crabtree, PA on July 28, 2018. I'm certain that many of us have memories of dining at Carbone's restaurant, whether you remember the original restaurant or the one from this photo montage. My parents and I went there right after the family announced the closing of the restaurant. These are some of the photos that were taken that evening.
These are just a few of the premium ribbons my grandfather Ken Hutton won for his entries of various fruits and vegetables at the Harrod Fair. I loved attending this fair with my paternal grandparents (grandma was a good sport riding the various rides with me although she disliked amusement rides😍). What great memories I have of this great community event. What are some of the memories you have of the Harrod Fair?
A week after the "polar vortex of January 2019", Thursday February 7, 2019 in Greensburg, mother nature was kind to give us a beautiful day of 50* weather. That morning, we had a very foggy start to the day. Here is Greensburg that morning...scenes of Main Street and of the city as viewed from Urania Avenue.
From the Friday September 19, 1958 Latrobe Bulletin, on the 200th anniversary celebration of Fort Ligonier. Some of the ads from the "Bulletin Souvenir Edition".
This week we travel to Delmont, PA. Every October they hold the annual Apple n Arts festival at Shield's Farm and in December Christmas at Salem Crossroads. The pilgrimage is held at Shield's Farm and at the churches featured in this week's video have Christmas themed events for everyone to enjoy. These are the lovely churches around the town.
Business and banking that exist only on the buildings in downtown Greensburg, but will be forever in out hearts and minds.
Scenes about town... Greensburg OUR hometown...the last two photos are from Gettysburg, the 11th Pennsylvania monument and "Sallie".
Greensburg Pennsylvania's beautiful Palace Theater
Another part of the Irish part of the Tamburitizans show at the Palace Theater in Greensburg, January 27, 2019.
A wee bit of Irish step dancing from the Tamburitizans at the palace theater January 27, 2019.
The tamburitizans were at the palace theater on January 27, 2019. Part of the Irish part of the show.
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