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The Bradford County Museum is a local history museum in Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Located in the building which previously housed the Bradford County Jail, it is owned and operated by the Bradford County Historical Society, which has been in operation since 1870. [2]
He retired from both the W. T. Grant Company and the Grant Foundation at age 90, yet still served in an honorary capacity until his death in 1972 in Greenwich, CT at age 96. By that time his nationwide empire of W. T. Grant Co. (Grants) and Grant City stores had grown to almost 1,200, although the company failed in 1975 and was soon liquidated.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
In 1906 the first "W. T. Grant Co. 25 Cent Store" (equal to $8.48 today) opened in Lynn, Massachusetts.Modest profit, coupled with a fast turnover of inventory, caused the stores to grow to almost $100 million (~$1.73 billion in 2023) annual sales by 1936, the same year that William Thomas Grant started the W. T. Grant Foundation.
Bradford County official website; Bradford County Historical Society; Bradford County Tourism Promotion Agency; Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Planning and Research, Geographic Information Division, "2022 General Highway Map of Bradford County". Note: shows boroughs, townships, roads, villages, some streams.
Jul. 6—The George W. Bradford historical marker, originally dedicated on July 4, 1976, was rededicated on Saturday, July 3. The marker denotes the place of the last Black school in Rusk, the ...
Bradford Naturalists' Society founded. [31] 1877 – Briggs Priestley becomes mayor. 1878 Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society founded. [31] Angus Holden becomes mayor. [5] Horton Park opens. [6] 1879 – Art Gallery and Museum established in Darley Street. [32] 1880 Bowling Park opens. [6] Swan Arcade built. 1881 Bradford Reform ...
The Bradford rest area on Interstate 91 contains a historical marker indicating where his home and workshop stood and commemorating his accomplishments. [6] The Bradford Historical Society Museum's collections include an 1810 Wilson Globe in a custom-made case, which was created by Bradford's Copeland Furniture Company. [7]