Butler, Pennsylvania Butler, Pennsylvania Location in Butler County Location in Butler County Butler is positioned in Pennsylvania Butler - Butler County Butler Butler is a town/city and the governmental center of county of Butler County in the U.S.

As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 13,757. Butler was titled the 7th best small town in America by Smithsonian periodical in May 2012. Throughout most of its history, the town/city of Butler has been a primary manufacturing and industrialized center.

In 1902, the Standard Steel Car Company opened one of its biggest railcar manufacturing facilities in Butler.

The undivided Jeep was created by American Bantam and the first prototypes were produced at the Butler facility.

In the 1950s, Butler became one of the first metros/cities to install bells at crosswalks, a common practice today.

The town/city was linked to Pittsburgh via Mars, Pennsylvania, in 1907 by the Pittsburgh and Butler Street Railway, and to Evans City in 1908 by the Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler and New Castle Railway, both interurban street car lines.

Butler Area School District Butler County Courthouse The Butler County Courthouse is a government and judicial building positioned in the heart of the city.

It is presently maintained as a exhibition, and is the command posts of the Butler County Historical Society.

The Maridon Museum, positioned in downtown Butler, is the only exhibition in the Western Pennsylvania region with a specific focus on Chinese and Japanese art and culture.

Butler Area School District South Butler County School District Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School Butler County Community College (Pennsylvania) Live plays are performed by small-town actors at the historic Butler Little Theatre, which has been running productions continuously since 1941.

Butler is home to the Butler County Symphony Association, which performs at the Butler Intermediate High School auditorium.

They include the Associated Artists of Butler County and the Butler Arts Council.

Butler Road Race, a 5-mile and 2-mile race held each summer in June, raises funds for small-town students in scholarships.

The Butler Fall Festival, held each September, features car shows, ethnic foods, and many representative items from various cultures.

Butler Blue - Sox, Prospect League Butler County Bears, Heartland Football League Butler Area Softball League Butler Sports League The Butler County Airport terminal building Butler County Airport is used for general aviation, and can accommodate large airplane such as corporate jets.

Butler Farm Show Airport is used by pilots with smaller, private airplane in the Butler area.

Butler is served by The Bus, run by the Butler Transit Authority.

Route 422 skirts the town/city to the north on the Butler Bypass.

PA 68 and PA 356 go straight through downtown, where they intersect with PA 8, Butler's Main Street when passing through the city.

Butler County News Connoquenessing Creek flows through Butler, Pennsylvania.

Rich Bartlewski, pro football player, born in Butler Fred Rogers was a puppeteer and musician on her show for seven years before creating Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; born and raised in Butler.

Joan Chandler, actress, born in Butler Barbara Feldon, film and tv actress, Agent 99 of the TV series Get Smart, born in Butler Khalil Greene, former Major League Baseball player, born in Butler Terry Hanratty, All-American quarterback from Notre Dame who won the National Championship in 1966 and went on to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers amid the 1970s as a backup; born in Butler in 1948 Harry Holiday, world record-setting swimmer and Armco CEO, born and raised in Butler Bret Michaels, lead singer of Poison, born in Butler but raised in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Michele Pawk, Tony Award-winning actress, born and raised in Butler Perry, Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton (1994 97), born in Vandergrift, graduated from Butler High School in 1945 Paul Posluszny, Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker and All American Penn State University linebacker, born in Butler Jim Pugh, jazz trombonist and arranger, born and raised in Butler William Purvis, French horn player, born and raised in Butler Bill Saul and his twin brothers Rich Saul and Ron Saul, experienced football players amid the 1960s and 1970s, born and raised in Butler Scot Thompson, born and raised in Butler, played Major League Baseball with the Cubs, Giants and Expos Ed Vargo, Major League Baseball umpire, born in Butler Samuel Hall Young, prominent Alaska Presbyterian missionary, born and raised in Butler a b c "Butler County, 5th class" (pdf).

"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Butler city, Pennsylvania".

An Historical Gazetteer of Butler County, Pennsylvania, p.

Butler County Ford.

History of Butler County, Pennsylvania:...Pioneers and Representative Citizens, Etc., Etc.

An Historical Gazetteer of Butler County, Pennsylvania, Chicora: Mechling Bookbindery, 2006, ISBN 978-0-9760563-9-3.

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