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Sponsor a Picnic Table!

Tuesday Apr 13th, 2021

Hagen History Center is looking for those interested in donating in memory/honor of friends and loved ones to place picnic tables on the museum grounds in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Robert and Mary Margaret Scypinski Scholarship Fund

Geri Cicchetti

Monday Apr 12th, 2021

The Robert and Mary Margaret Scypinski Scholarship Fund supports the Hagen History Center’s educational programs for school-aged children, including student field trips and attendance at the HHC’s summer history camp which begins in July, 2021.

A Page from Erie’s Darker Past: Part 2

Claire Varrieur

Friday Apr 9th, 2021

The Erie County Oyer and Terminer Collection is one of the Erie County Historical Society’s most interesting archival collections. Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery were established by the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1790 at the county level to hear and determine capital crimes (murder, rape, treason, burglary, robbery, arson, and others), formerly a function of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Long Life & Happiness to All Its Residents #52

Becky Weiser

Wednesday Apr 7th, 2021

We have quite the library at the Hagen History Center with hundreds of volumes on a variety of historical topics available. You must be a member of the society to access those books, however; so please check on our website to join if you are not. Not only do you have access to the library and archives but to our exhibits as well. We are currently not open to visitors but will be soon!

Long Life & Happiness to All its Residents #51

Becky Weiser

Wednesday Mar 31st, 2021

Hello, is anybody out there? If you want to reach me you can call my landline, cell phone, email, use social media or send me a telegram. What? Nobody sends telegrams any more, but they did from 1847 until 2006 and we had a busy office here in Erie.

Sarah Woodruff - Erie Artist

Jeff Sherry

Friday Mar 26th, 2021

Little is known about Sarah M. Woodruff’s personal story. Her artwork, however, remains as a lasting legacy to her life and advocacy for the arts.

Long Life & Happiness for All its Residents #50

Becky Weiser

Wednesday Mar 24th, 2021

The town of Erie was first settled permanently by Seth Reed and his family in 1795 near the mouth of Mill Creek, which runs through the city (tunneled after the 1915 Flood) and empties into Presque Isle Bay. In that same year, the City of Erie was officially laid out by Andrew Ellicott and William Irvine. The marker stone pictured below was one of four that marked the first Erie community borders.

A Page from Erie’s Darker Past: Part I

Claire Varrieur

Monday Mar 22nd, 2021

The Erie County Oyer and Terminer Collection is one of the Erie County Historical Society’s most interesting archival collections.

Ida Tarbell: The Muckraker that Challenged Rockefeller.

Jeff Sherry

Friday Mar 19th, 2021

Ida M. Tarbell’s name would become synonymous with the term muckraker after publication of her 19-part expose of the business practices of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company that had destroyed her father’s oil business, as well as many other small oil related companies in Pennsylvania’s oil region in the 1870s.

Long Life & Happiness for All its Residents #49

Wednesday Mar 17th, 2021

Beginning two-hundred million years ago, at various times Pennsylvania was literally covered by an ocean! The land would rise and fall over the millennia. When it rose, lush vegetation would cover the land only to be covered by water when it fell. Each time, sand and water would compact the vegetation forming layers of coal such as what is found south of Pittsburgh near the Scranton area and into West Virginia.

Sponsor a Picnic Table!

Robert and Mary Margaret Scypinski Scholarship Fund

A Page from Erie’s Darker Past: Part 2

Long Life & Happiness to All Its Residents #52

Long Life & Happiness to All its Residents #51

Sarah Woodruff - Erie Artist

Long Life & Happiness for All its Residents #50

A Page from Erie’s Darker Past: Part I

Ida Tarbell: The Muckraker that Challenged Rockefeller.

Long Life & Happiness for All its Residents #49

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