Centre County Heritage
Individual issues of Centre County Heritage, published since 1985, are available for purchase as they have not been compiled and bound. For a complete list, please click here.
Please call (814) 234-4779 or email info@centrecountyhistory.org for questions about our publications.
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Centre County Heritage, 1956-1975
Centre County Historical Society,
1975
This is the first compilation of the Centre County Heritage, the Centre County Historical Society's yearly publication devoted to county history. You'll find articles on events of 1776 and 1876, histories of many of the small towns and villages that dot the county, agriculture, industry, geology, and even an adventure story. The names index is a very useful feature. (CCHS)
Pages: 233
Size: 7 x 9 1/2
Extras: index
Paperback Price: $5.00
* Paperback Member Price: $4.50
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Centre County Heritage, 1976-1985
W. Douglas Macneal,
1996
A compilation of articles from a decade of the Centre County Heritage, accompanied by over 100 new illustrations. (CCHS)
Pages: 424
Size: 6 3/4 x 9 5/8
Extras: illustrations, index
Hardcover Price: $10.00
* Hardcover Member Price: $9.00
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Centre County Heritage, Vol. 36, # 1
W. Douglas Macneal,
2000
"The Centre County Regiment: The story of the 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers" Editor Doug Macneal has written a special issue of the Historical Society's journal, which is an exhaustive and fascinating look at the 148th, Centre County's Civil War regiment. Its twelve chapters trace the regiment's history from the beginning of the war, through the recruitment of men to fight for the Union, through the campaigns in which they took part, to the return home of only some of the men who left. The appendix is a list of the Centre County men who fought with the 148th. (CCHS)
Pages: 160
Size: 8 1/2 x 11
Extras: illustrations, maps
Paperback Price: $10.00
* Paperback Member Price: $9.00
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Centre County Heritage, Vol. 38, # 1 & 2
W. Douglas Macneal,
2002
"Rebersburg, 1861: Simon Harper's Diary" According to editor Doug Macneal, this issue "draws us into an appreciation of the quality of character of the ordinary people from ordinary places whose lives were about to lose their ordinariness." (CCHS)
Pages: 77
Size: 8 1/2 x 10 3/4
Extras: illustrations, maps
Paperback Price: $15.00
* Paperback Member Price: $13.50
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Centre County Heritage, Vol. 39, # 1
W. Douglas Macneal,
2004
"John P. Mitchell: Poetry and Prose" and "Investigation of the Pennsylvania State College, 1881" This is a special double-issue that brings together two fascinating Centre County articles on poetry and the intellectual life of Bellefonte in the 1860s, and the struggles of the Pennsylvania State College, including a stage reenactment by Everett Tiffany. (CCHS)
Pages: 77
Size: 8 1/2 x 11
Extras: illustrations, maps
Paperback Price: $15.00
* Paperback Member Price: $13.50
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Centre County Heritage, Vol. 40, # 1 & 2
W. Douglas Macneal,
Fall 2005
"A School Journal, October 20-December 19, 1856" by Samuel Gramly, Teacher, Rebersburg
"My Village School" poem by Henry Meyer
"Goat in the Belfry" excerpt by Mary M. Abbott
"The Boogersburg School" by Bob Struble
Map of the Common Schools in Centre County, 1874
Pages: 27
Size: 8 1/2 x 11
Extras: illustrations, maps
Paperback Price: $10.00
* Paperback Member Price: $9.00
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Centre County Heritage, Vol. 41, # 1 & 2
W. Douglas Macneal,
Fall 2006
"George Grey Barnard: Lost but Never Forgotten" by SaraLouise S. Howells
"An American in Medieval Paris" excerpt by Elizabeth B. Smith
"George Grey Barnard and the Bellefonte Design that Came not to Be" by Douglas Macneal
"Harold E. Dickson" by Jacqueline Melander
"George Grey Barnard's Controversial Lincoln" excerpt by Harold E. Dickson
Pages: 37
Size: 8 1/2 x 11
Extras: illustrations
Paperback Price: $15.00
* Paperback Member Price: $13.50
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Centre County Heritage, Vol. 42, # 1 & 2
W. Douglas Macneal,
Fall 2007
"A County Divided: Centre County's Civil War Agony" by Douglas Macneal
"General James Sante Brisbin and his Wife Jane" by Cordes Chambers III and Douglas Macneal
Pages: 44
Size: 8 1/2 x 11
Extras: illustrations
Paperback Price: $15.00
* Paperback Member Price: $13.50
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