Events

Some of the programs the society typically offers are:

logo for our events calendar Monthly lecture series with guest speakers • Museum tours • Walking tours of historic New Castle • Lawrence County Trivia Competition • Sports Hall of Fame • Fireworks exhibits • Ice cream social • Membership & Friends Dinner • Haunted History Walking Tour • Mistletoe Magic • Open House with Santa

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Annual Ice Cream Social, Children’s Program, WWI Exhibit & Fireworks PLUS Book Signing

Lawrence County Historical Society 408 North Jefferson Street, New Castle, PA, United States

   Join us for our annual very special evening full of delicious events. Children's Program • Ice Cream Social • World War I Exhibit • Museum Tours • Fireworks! Event Schedule The Front Porch and lawn of the Historical Society are great places to view the fireworks. Come join the fun this July 9! Photo credits: "Cherry Ice Cream Sundae" by […]

FREE - Open to the Public

Interesting Discoveries in Oak Park Cemetery

Lawrence County Historical Society 408 North Jefferson Street, New Castle, PA, United States

Join us October 12 @ 7 pm as Ed Petrus discusses his discoveries in the Oak Park Cemetery The caretaker’s house at Oak Park Cemetery had fallen into disrepair and the cemetery board had plans to demolish it. Instead, local residents, Ed & Lorraine Petrus purchased it and from 2011 to 2013 worked on its restoration. After spending […]

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Underground Railroad in Lawrence County

Lawrence County Historical Society 408 North Jefferson Street, New Castle, PA, United States

Join us November 9 @ 7 pm as Susan Urbanek Linville discusses the African American community pre-Civil War, abolitionist preachers, free churches and the underground railroad. Susan Urbanek Linville, author of In Hot Pursuit: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, will give a presentation about the Underground Railroad Wednesday, November 9th […]

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Open House with SANTA – he’s back!!!!

Museum at the Lawrence County Historical Society 408 North Jefferson Street, New Castle, PA, United States

Santa will visit the mansion to check out our decorations. Children can visit with Santa for that “old fashioned” Christmas feeling. And even better yet, the kids can have their picture taken with Santa. Free tours of the mansion included.   FREE TOURS of our mansion that is beautifully decorated in a Victorian Christmas style FREE REFRESHMENTS FREE TREAT BAGS […]

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Traveling Shoes: Looking at African American Migration

Lawrence County Historical Society 408 North Jefferson Street, New Castle, PA, United States

The migration saw the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to parts of the North, Midwest and West. The year 1910, when 7 million of the 8 million African Americans lived below the cotton curtain. African Americans sought to build a new place for themselves, to take control of their […]

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“Plants Past and Present” with Gary Church

Lawrence County Historical Society 408 North Jefferson Street, New Castle, PA, United States

Join us March 8 from 7-8:30 pm for "Plants Past and Present" with Gary Church. EVENT DETAILS: Plants Past and Present is a presentation about local plants from the Devonian period (millions of years ago) to modern times. EVENT SPEAKER:  Gary Church is a columnist and blogger for the New Castle News. Formerly a local greenhouse grower, Church […]

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History of Judaism in Lawrence County

Lawrence County Historical Society 408 North Jefferson Street, New Castle, PA, United States

Join us April 5 from 7-8:30 pm when Eric Lidji, a representative of the Heinz History Center, presents on the History of Judaism in Lawrence County. EVENT DETAILS: In the early 20th century, Western Pennsylvania had more small town Jewish communities than any other region in America. In fact, it had almost ten percent of […]

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Dante DiThomas and his 50 Suitcases

Lawrence County Historical Society 408 North Jefferson Street, New Castle, PA, United States

Join us May 10 from 7-8:30 pm when Dr. Tom Zumpella, retired New Castle High School music director, presents "Dante DiThomas and his 50 Suitcases" EVENT DETAILS: After graduating from New Castle High School in 1932, Dante DiThomas went on the road with a dance band. It was during this time that he learned to arrange […]

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Lawrence County Trivia Competition (2017)

Northminster Presbyterian Church 2434 Wilmington Road, New Castle PA, United States

  Students from all county schools are invited to participate in this academic competition, answering history, geography, business, people, and sports questions about Lawrence County. Boxes of questions may be purchased at the Historical Society's GIFT SHOP and in our ONLINE eSTORE. 100 student participants / 6 county school districts / Junior and Senior High students from […]

FREE - Open to the Public