Alle-Kiski Valley Historical Society/ Heritage Museum

Alle-Kiski Valley Historical Society/ Heritage Museum We are a museum that concentrates on the Alle-Kiski area and bringing local history to life. We also have temporary displays that change throughout the year.

Our displays range from local industry to art to military history to our early 1900's village. All of this is housed in a wonderful 1931 Art Deco building. We also have many wonderful books on local history. We are open for tours at anytime with any group size with two weeks notice. Contact us for details about our school outreach programs and field trips. We are a member of Blue Star Museums. Wit

h this all active military and their family receive free admission. We also extend this thank you to all veterans.

06/12/2022
02/14/2021

Fritz Ottenheimer was born in Kontanz, Germany. He was able to escape Germany along with his family and come to the United States before the darkest days of ...

12/27/2020

  Beaver County Food Heritage Oral History Project When I look back on my childhood, my fondest memories are those surrounding the dinner table. ~ Katie Lee   

09/17/2020
"The lives of these women [and families] also were caught up in a world of shifts, strikes, and underground danger. When...
09/07/2020

"The lives of these women [and families] also were caught up in a world of shifts, strikes, and underground danger. When asked to remember, retired miners' wives and women who spent their girlhood years in mining communities of the twenties and thirties can recall incidents from their day-to-day existence which give us a picture of that unique lifestyle which is gone forever." ~Eileen Mountjoy (A Woman's Day: Work and Anxiety)

In recognition of Labor Day, we reach into the TSVP local history podcasting archive and feature a conversation with Mary Fogle-Loveland of Cheswick, Pennsylvania about growing up in a coal mining family in the Allegheny River Valley, featuring the voices of Joe and Lucy Fogle.

Mary Fogle-Loveland | Coal Miner’s Daughter     On episode 7 of the podcast we talk with Mary Fogle-Loveland of Cheswick, Pennsylvania about growing up in a coal mining family in th…

We're all in this together . . .
05/04/2020

We're all in this together . . .

Community Conversations Series Doing Local History in Beaver County During the COVID-19 Pandemic USE HEADPHONE OR EARBUDS FOR BEST LISTENING   On episode 3 of the Listening Library: Beaver Cou…

04/17/2020
We wonder how many Western Pennsylvanians remember the POW camps near Pittsburgh.
03/27/2020

We wonder how many Western Pennsylvanians remember the POW camps near Pittsburgh.

Dr. James Van Keuren WWII POW Camps in Ohio   ABOUT THIS EPISODE On episode 43 of Veteran Voices: The Oral History Podcast, we talk with James Van Keuren about his book, World War II POW Camp…

03/25/2020

Address

224 E 7th Avenue
Tarentum, PA
15084

Opening Hours

Wednesday 11am - 3pm
Saturday 11am - 3pm

Telephone

+17242247666

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