Dr. Maria White – Prominent Physician and Surgeon
By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & Volunteer Dr. Maria White was a prominent physician and surgeon of New Castle, Pennsylvania (PA). She spent years in Panjab, India, where…
Dr Elizabeth McLaughry – 1st Woman Physician in New Castle
By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & Volunteer The Overlook Sanitarium in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1911 by Dr. Elizabeth McLaughry, the earliest woman physician in New…
Murder of Captain Alexander Heasley, 33rd US Colored Troops
By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & VolunteerAlexander Heasley was born in 1840 in Pennsylvania and was living with his family in Pulaski Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania by 1850.Enlisted…
Lt. Timothy Ivory (Tuskegee Airmen)
By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & Volunteer Timothy Ivory was born in Youngstown, Ohio (OH), on September 2, 1922. His family moved from Youngstown to New Castle, Pennsylvania…
Portersville Posse
By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & VolunteerIn October 1841, the Mercer Luminary reported that six or eight Negro hunters from Virginia came upon four Negroes at a house…
Alexander Scott – Former Slave Settled in New Castle
By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & Volunteer An interesting account of a former slave was found in a 1898 issue of the New Castle News. According to the…
Sgt. William T. Hunt (Tuskegee Airmen)
Text provided by the Family of Sgt. William T. Hunt. Edited and adapted by Kathleen Mooney (LCHS Webmaster).William Thomas Hunt (Tom) was born January 25, 1920, in Newport News, Virginia…
Advise Against Establishment of Business in North Hill Historic District
By Edward X. Petrus, Board President, LCHS. Originally posted on our front page April 26, 2021. “The Lawrence County Historical Society strongly advises against the establishment of a Dollar General…
1866 Adverts by Three Black Businessmen
By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer) – originally posted on our Facebook page February 18, 2021 Three Black Businessmen's ads in the 1866 New Castle City Directory…
Lawrence County’s Black Orphanage
By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer) – originally posted on our Facebook page February 13, 2021 Established and Supported by Black Women In 1896, the National Federation…
Black “Roundhead” Lost to Modern History
By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer) - originally posted on our Facebook page February 9, 2021 Many have studied the Civil War history of the infamous 100th…
George Chauncey Stanton
By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer)After the U.S. entered World War I, Black selectees from the Pittsburgh area, nearly all educated, many of them having college training,…