History Celebration Weekend

The 2022 Beaver County History Celebration Weekend will be celebrated at the Little Beaver Historical Society, featuring many forms communication technology. At the McCarl Industrial Building, Red Brick Schoolhouse Building, and other LBHS museum buildings in Darlington, Pennsylvania, you can see a variety of exhibits, displays, and physical artifacts related to our History Celebration Weekend theme, such as old telephones, phonographs, radios, computers, and other communication technologies developed and used throughout history.

Check out LBHS’s special online exhibit: The incredible Human Voice: History’s Original Communication Technology

Photo source: Dave Holoweiko’s Little Beaver Historical Society Facebook Page. Image posted 2014-08-11. Original photo source not credited. Post caption: “Beaver County Independent Phone company display wagon 1908.”

Open LBHS Forge & Foundry

The Little Beaver Historical Society forge and foundry will be open for demonstrations.

Facebook: LBHS Forge and Foundry

Open LBHS Forge & Foundry

The Little Beaver Historical Society forge and foundry will be open for demonstrations.

Facebook: LBHS Forge and Foundry

Open Museum Hours

The Little Beaver Historical Society will be open to visitors on select dates:

• July 9, 2022 (10am – 4pm) – Featuring military displays. In Greersburg Academy see our Civil War 100th Pa Volunteers (The Roundheads) display and our scale model of Legionville (the first US Army training camp after the Revolutionary War). In the Red Brick museum see our large WWI display and artifacts from WWII to the Gulf War. 

• August 20, 2022 (10am – 4pm) – Featuring displays and information related to education. The LBHS Forge & Foundry will be open.

• September 10, 2022 (10am – 4pm) – Featuring displays and information related to local Native American history.  

• October 8, 2022 (10am – 4pm)

Open LBHS Forge & Foundry

The Little Beaver Historical Society forge and foundry will be open for demonstrations.

Facebook: LBHS Forge and Foundry

Open LBHS Forge & Foundry

The Little Beaver Historical Society forge and foundry will be open for demonstrations.

Facebook: LBHS Forge and Foundry

Open Museum Hours

The Little Beaver Historical Society will be open to visitors on select dates:

• July 9, 2022 (10am – 4pm) – Featuring military displays. In Greersburg Academy see our Civil War 100th Pa Volunteers (The Roundheads) display and our scale model of Legionville (the first US Army training camp after the Revolutionary War). In the Red Brick museum see our large WWI display and artifacts from WWII to the Gulf War. 

• August 20, 2022 (10am – 4pm) – Featuring displays and information related to education. The LBHS Forge & Foundry will be open.

• September 10, 2022 (10am – 4pm) – Featuring displays and information related to local Native American history.  

• October 8, 2022 (10am – 4pm)

Open Museum Hours

The Little Beaver Historical Society will be open to visitors on select dates:

• July 9, 2022 (10am – 4pm) – Featuring military displays. In Greersburg Academy see our Civil War 100th Pa Volunteers (The Roundheads) display and our scale model of Legionville (the first US Army training camp after the Revolutionary War). In the Red Brick museum see our large WWI display and artifacts from WWII to the Gulf War. 

• August 20, 2022 (10am – 4pm) – Featuring displays and information related to education. The LBHS Forge & Foundry will be open.

• September 10, 2022 (10am – 4pm) – Featuring displays and information related to local Native American history.  

• October 8, 2022 (10am – 4pm)

Open Museum Hours

The Little Beaver Historical Society will be open to visitors on select dates:

• July 9, 2022 (10am – 4pm) – Featuring military displays. In Greersburg Academy see our Civil War 100th Pa Volunteers (The Roundheads) display and our scale model of Legionville (the first US Army training camp after the Revolutionary War). In the Red Brick museum see our large WWI display and artifacts from WWII to the Gulf War. 

• August 20, 2022 (10am – 4pm) – Featuring displays and information related to education. The LBHS Forge & Foundry will be open.

• September 10, 2022 (10am – 4pm) – Featuring displays and information related to local Native American history.  

• October 8, 2022 (10am – 4pm)

Guest Speaker: Brady Crytzer

Frontier Beaver County, Native American Leader Tanacharison, and Fort McIntosh

Brady J. Crytzer teaches history at Robert Morris University. A specialist in the Imperial History of North America, Crytzer is the host of the weekly hit podcast Dispatches: The Podcast of the Journal of the American Revolution. With over a million downloads and seven books to his credit, Crytzer is a leading voice in his field. Crytzer is the host of the cable series Battlefield Pennsylvania on the Pennsylvania Cable Network, and the winner of the Donna J. McKee and Donald S. Kelly Awards for Outstanding Scholarship and Service in History. His work has been featured in the Journal of the American Revolution, Pennsylvania Heritage, Game News, and Muzzleloader Magazine. His work has been reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, The Journal of Southern History, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and The Journal of Military History.

While planning your trip to this event, stop by the Little Beaver Historical Society and explore the local history of northern Beaver County and surrounding region.  Learn about our open museum dates and times, or make an appointment to visit the museum.