Bird watching is a wonderful opportunity to get outside and enjoy nature’s beauty while improving your own well-being. Greene County offers a variety of locations for bird watching year-round. Explore our list of where we recommend to go birding.
The Third Pennsylvania Bird Atlas (PBA3) is a five-year-long survey running from January 2024 to February 2029. It is a comprehensive study to document the breeding bird species of Pennsylvania.
On April 8th, Pennsylvania is set to see the Sun, Moon and Earth align for a solar eclipse. And several locations across Greene County are celebrating with Solar Eclipse parties.
The invention of the beehive oven was a major advance in the production of coke. Beehive ovens were large masonry domes and named according to their shape. Constructed in long rows for ease of loading and unloading, workers would bring the coal from the nearby mines, dump the coal in the opening in the top, ignite the coal and seal the ovens to let the coal smolder.
Cornerstone’s headquarters located at the first Greene County Courthouse, has its own genealogy to share with anyone who comes to the restored log courthouse and its research annex looking for a lost relative or a family attached to a gas and oil lease.
Love is in the air and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Now is the time to be planning how to shower your significant other with love. Go all out or keep it simple. Greene County has plenty of local options to choose from whether you are looking for a fun activity to do together, enjoy a delicious treat, or to pick up the perfect present.
Throughout the years, others passing Horseshoe Bend on dreary nights saw the ghostly figure of a man with a length of stovepipe in place of his head. As each of these people shared their otherworldly encounter, the legend of Stovepipe was born.
Greene County was once a part of the frontier of European settlement in America. Multiple well-known homestead massacres occurred in the area during these frontier times, shedding blood on the ground and leaving lasting impressions in both natural and supernatural history.
Wine in the garden is a winning combination – from warm spring afternoons until the last bright days of fall. Add a drive on country roads to “shop local” for what you need to lounge and sip in your own backyard and the magic of that moment is complete.
Back then, a college education included rolling up your sleeves and helping build whatever wall the college needed. Professor Alfred Miller put his students to work on the college expansion of the 1870s. They built a reservoir in the commons by digging clay that was used to make the 1,400,012 bricks for Miller Hall.