Where in Lawrence County will you find Pennsylvania's longest continuous cave?
Harlansburg
100
In 1885, Rev. John Griffen, a missionary who was working in Egypt, brought to Westminster College this distinguished guest, who has made her home on campus ever since.
What is Lady Pesed (2,300-year-old mummy)
100
What type of fowl was found by the earliest residents of Neshannock Falls roosting in large numbers under the brackish moss covered overhangs in the locale?
What is Wild Turkey
100
During a "panic" after the Civil War, the National Bank of Lawrence County was one of only 8 banks in the U.S. not to suspendthis kind of payment to its depositors.
What is Specie (payment in gold or silver)
100
In 1901, this bank was organized under the leadership of limestone magnate George W. Johnson and a grant 7-story building was erected on East Washington Street, near East Street.
What is Lawrence Savings and Trust (LS&T)
200
In November 2002, this organization leased the Harlansburg Cave. Since that time, gates were installed and work has been done to clean up, map, and document this wonder of nature.
What is Mid Atlantic Karst Conservancy
200
Mysteries surrounding Westminster College's 2,300 year-old mummy have been answered scientifically through radio-carbon dating, x-rays, CT scans, and this high tech method.
What is Forensic Reconstructive Modeling
200
What purpose did locally mined limestone serve to our early steel industries?
What is Flux (something easily melted or fused) for blast furnaces
200
Adolph Green established a local bank, which was successful at catering to the needs of the common workers and the new immigrants coming to New Castle for employment opportunities. It eventually became known as Peoples Bank. What is the bank called now?
What is First Commonwealth
200
When this New Castle business opened in 1913, it was heralded as the "daylight store," owing to it being airy and well lit with natural and electric lighting.
What is New Castle Dry Goods (Troutman's)
300
Early residents of the Mount Jackson area claimed to fear these more than the "Spirit of Darkness" itself and refused to allow their children to go to school because of their abundance.
What is bears
300
By September 1939 (during Great Depression), 52% of New Castle's population was subsisting in this manner.
What is on government relief
300
Perry Twp's Camp Run gets its name because, in pioneer days, these were in abundance in the twp.
What is Sugar Camps (where naple trees were tapped for syrup)
300
Quiver, Tribune, and Boomer were early newspapers associated with this part of Lawrence County.
What is Wampum
300
This one-room schoolhouse operated from 1854-1927. It was used, for a time, as the North Beaver Twp. Grange, but is now abandoned. Route 60 was cut through adjacent lands, but the historic structure was not affected.
What is Leonard School
400
Multiflora rose, garlice mustard, common reed, purple loosestrife, and Japanese knotweed are examples of what Lawrence County species?
What is Exotic Invasive Species
400
This 74-year-old Civil War veteran and well-known member of New Castle's police force died from injuriesthat he sustained while attempting to keep the peace at a worker protest on Mahoning Ave. during the first day of the violent steel strike of 1919.
What is John W. Edwards
400
After the hillside was partially removed to accomodate the building of this business on East Washington Street and Taylor Ave. in the city, ancient tectonic activity became visible in the surrounding rock formation.
What is CVS Pharmacy
400
What is the only locally owned banking institution in Lawrence County?
What is Ellwood City based ESB Bank
400
In 1859, the people of Harlansburg erected a two-story brick school, which contained high school classes. For many years, this institution was referred to by this name.
What is Clay College
500
Elevations in the county range from a high of 1,440 feet just to the west of the Slippery Rock Creek in Slippery Rock Twp. to a low of 740 feet at this point.
What is Rock Point, Wayne Twp. (where the Beaver River flows out of the country)
500
During the bitter steel strike of 1919, these men were deputized in an attempt to keep the peace.
What is retruning W.W.I. veterans
500
After a campaign headed up by local individuals, like outdoorsman Thomas Gartley, the Court of Lawrence County decreed borough status on this community in the south-eastern part of Wayne Township in February of 1929.
What is Ellport
500
In 1999, Sky Financial Group acquired First Western Bancorp (former First National Bank of Lawrence County). In 2007, this huge national institution announced an acquisition of the bank. The merger in terms of stock and cash transaction was valued at $3.6 Billion.
What is Huntington Bancshares, Inc.
500
In 1910, New Castle Cit Council voted to establish one of these, which would be initially located on the second floor of the Hileman Building on the Diamond (now Kennedy Square).