PRESERVING HISTORY FOR A BETTER TOMORROW
The Tyrone Area Historical Society is dedicated to preserving our history, educating younger generations, and, through offering an historical perspective, paving the way for a better future!
Since The Tyrone Area Historical Society’s founding in 1990, we have collected literally hundreds of historical artifacts and made them available to all residents by displaying them in our museum, as well as holding regular office hours at our society’s headquarters.
RECENT ADDITIONS TO OUR DATABASE
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New Tyrone Amtrak Station
Work on the project started in March 2020. This federally funded project was to take two months but due to many “compliance issues” between the contractors, Norfolk Southern, and Amtrak we are now in December 2020 and the station has been opened for use during the...
Tyrone’s Military Connection
Tyrone has always had a strong connection with its’s military. The exact reason is unknown. Going through our records we had one soldier who fought with Colonel Custer at the battle of the Little Bighorn, over 300 who joined the military during the Civil War, 24 who...
9th Street Bridge Project
Thanks to many generous donations, the Tyrone Area Historical Society has donated $14,500.00 towards the 9th Street Brdige Project! Members and community businesses partnered with our historical society in giving financial aide towards the restoration of the 9th...
Tyrone’s Oldest Building
During the research that follows, we have found many discrepancies among the “facts” of numerous authors. Most of these discrepancies were in dates. After purchasing the building in 2019 my wife and I went to the Blair County Courthouse and requested copies of all...
Logan Avenue’s History Peeking Through
David Snyder, a Director At Large for the Tyrone Historical Society, conducted a photoshoot through his media company (Ingenuity Media) of the now re-hidden brick road under Logan Avenue in downtown Tyrone. Snyder's photoshoot ("Logan Avenue BrickScape") was posted on...
Neighborhoods Demolished For i99
We just unearthed pictures of our long lost neighborhood(s) that our beloved i99 took from us! If you have any information on the names of streets, people, or businesses found in these pictures, please let us know!