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Our Mission · Since 1990
For more than three decades, we have gathered the artifacts, documents, and stories that make Tyrone what it is. From the roar of the Pennsylvania Railroad to the quiet hearths of the immigrant families (Irish, German, Welsh, Italian, and many more) who built lives along its tracks, our mission is to keep these memories alive, freely, for every generation that calls this valley home.
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Hundreds of donated artifacts spanning two centuries of Tyrone life, freely open to the public on Wednesdays and Sundays.
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Over 2,000 service members, from the Revolutionary War to today. Search by name, war, or branch, then visit their burial sites.
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Trace your roots through our extensive family records, census data, and immigrant arrival logs dating back generations.
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Photographs, oral histories, newspaper archives, and primary documents from the PRR era to the present day.
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Decades of Golden Eagle yearbooks, scanned page by page and browsable in your web browser. Look up a classmate, find a family member, or just page through the classes, teams, and faces that filled these halls year after year.
Browse the yearbooksFrom the Archives
October 2020
The last of the 1895 Tyrone Daily Herald clippings collected by Scott Troutman — Penn State students with a cannon shooting Daniel Shivery's house, a deafness-cure swindle worked with two watches having different ticks,…
October 2020
Gary Long's Bald Eagle Avenue memoir — the 1940s neighborhood at 1352 (the German-immigrant blacksmith Michael Long's house, where the author was born in February 1940), Mrs. Antokol's raisin pastries, Mr. Antokol's pine-tar maple-tree…
July 2020
Cary Simpson's 1992 dispatch on Tyrone's most beloved monument — the pedestrian underpass at 11th Street and Washington Avenue, formally known as Railroad Street — and the day two children from Huntingdon told their…
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All of our displays are generously donated for preservation and public learning. We believe it is our mission to make these treasures available free of charge.
Support the Society
Membership is what keeps the museum open, the archives staffed, and PastTimes in production. Two paths in. Pick the one that fits.
Individual & Family
Stand with the volunteers preserving Tyrone's history, and get the quarterly PastTimes Newsletter delivered to your door.
Levels from $5 (Student) to $500 (Life)
Business & Corporate
Local businesses keep Tyrone's history accessible to the next generation. Sponsorship comes with year-round visibility across our channels.
One annual tier: $125
With Gratitude
Local businesses keep the museum's doors open. We're grateful for their support.
