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Jul. 10—More than a year after the pandemic closed summer festivals far and near, Ligonier is enjoying a comeback unlike any other. The town's resurgence is fueled in part by the one festival ...
Nov. 29—The twinkling array of this year's Ligonier Valley Historical Society Festival of Lights display is bound to include a few cherry-colored snouts. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and his ...
Mar. 6—Several area restaurants and organizations are set to compete in Ligonier's 11th annual Soup's On! event later this month. The event is set for Saturday, March 20 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m ...
The park is home to the Ligonier Highland Games, a Scottish athletic and cultural festival that has annually drawn over 10,000 spectators. In 1983, the park was purchased by Kennywood Entertainment Company , which oversaw additional expansion, including an attraction designed and voiced by Fred Rogers based on his television show Mister Rogers ...
Ligonier was located on a state road and north of another, which allowed it to soon outpace the town of Rochester. In 1854 the construction of a railroad, completed in 1857, through the town, led to five additions to the city's street plan, which more than doubled the population by start of the American Civil War . [ 3 ]
For the next fifty-two years the meet was held at this private country club located in the Ligonier Valley about fifty miles outside Pittsburgh. Proceeds from the annual Rolling Rock Hunt Race Meeting went to the Home for Crippled Children.
Aug. 27—It's not the same-old, same-old when the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra collaborates with the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley for "Ligonier Under the Stars." The ...
This district encompasses 419 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, one contributing structure, and one contributing object that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Ligonier. They were built roughly between 1790 and 1944, and include a mix of residential, commercial, institutional, and ...