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Long Life & Happiness for All its Residents #47

Becky Weiser

Wednesday Mar 3rd, 2021

Are you ready for some mid 19^th Century scandal that happened here in Erie? It is all connected to a group of most likely well-meaning folks, debt and a cemetery.

Save-the-date to be a part of Where History Inspires.

Geri Cicchetti

Tuesday Mar 2nd, 2021

After being closed for several months, please plan to join us for the campus-wide Grand Opening of the Hagen History Center scheduled for the weekend of July 16.

Sam Jethroe: “The Jet” A Baseball Life

Jeff Sherry

Friday Feb 26th, 2021

Samuel Jethroe (1917-2001) was born in Columbus, Mississippi, and grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois. Jethroe, a switch-hitter who threw right-handed, played semi-pro baseball in the St. Louis area after high school and briefly caught for the Indianapolis ABCs in 1938,

Happiness & Long Life for All its Residents #46

Becky Weiser

Wednesday Feb 24th, 2021

In the early days of settlement, whiskey was the drink of choice for many. Whiskey was consumed at any point in the day, and by children as well as adults. Of course, then, as now, some people had a problem with too much whiskey drinking and the first prohibition society in Erie County began in Wattsburg in 1829. By 1840, every town in the county had a temperance society and by 1896 distilleries no longer existed here.

The Pope Hotel

Jeff Sherry

Friday Feb 19th, 2021

In a time of segregation and Jim Crow, African Americans were often not welcome or barred from many businesses, restaurants and taverns throughout the United States. American GIs serving in the military in World War II recalled being barred from lunch counters and other establishments where even German POWs were being served. Struggling to overcome this “Whites Only” segregation, many black businesses opened nationwide to meet the needs of this part of the population. Erie’s Pope Hotel at 1318 French Street, opened in 1928, was one such place.

A Pictorial View of Life in Erie's Black Community: An Untold Perspective

Johnny Johnson

Thursday Feb 18th, 2021

Mr. Johnny Johnson gives a PowerPoint presentation on the Ada Lawrence Collection to highlight through pictures family life in the African American Community.

Long Life & Happiness for All its Residents #45

Becky Weiser

Wednesday Feb 17th, 2021

Have you ever experienced some of the new 3D technology? Here at home, we have special software and a headset that you wear. Putting it on I feel like I am in an alternate reality and want to duck if something comes flying in my direction! It is amazing to experience being somewhere you’re not, but this isn’t a new visual concept at all! It all began in 1833 in England.

Celebrating A Successful Campaign!

Tuesday Feb 16th, 2021

The 2020 United Arts Fund raises $794,934 for Erie Arts & Culture, Erie Philharmonic, Erie Playhouse, expERIEnce Children's Museum, the Flagship Niagara League, and Hagen History Center.

Happy Birthday President Lincoln!

Becky Weiser

Friday Feb 12th, 2021

In honor of Abraham Lincoln’s 212^th birthday, the Hagen History Center would like to honor one of our donors, Mr. Robert P. King. Mr. King donated his Lincoln “everything” collection in 1944 and I do mean everything …coins, plaques, badges, anything with Lincoln on it or about it. Here are some of the highlights! We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate the President.

Long Life & Happiness for All its Residents #44

Becky Wesier

Wednesday Feb 10th, 2021

An Act for the gradual abolishment of slavery in Pennsylvania passed in 1780. What it stated was that the importation of slaves from overseas into the Commonwealth would cease. People in slavery born before this date could remain in slavery until they died or were freed. People born of slave parents after that date would remain “indentured servants” until the age of 28, then would be free. Erie County was settled around 1795; were there slaves here at that time?

Long Life & Happiness for All its Residents #47

Save-the-date to be a part of Where History Inspires.

Sam Jethroe: “The Jet” A Baseball Life

Happiness & Long Life for All its Residents #46

The Pope Hotel

A Pictorial View of Life in Erie's Black Community: An Untold Perspective

Long Life & Happiness for All its Residents #45

Celebrating A Successful Campaign!

Happy Birthday President Lincoln!

Long Life & Happiness for All its Residents #44

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