The Crawford County Historical Society

The purpose of establishing Crawford County Historical Society is to collect, preserve, and interpret the history of Crawford County. The Society archives contains one of the oldest and most comprehensive repositories for genealogical resources in northwestern Pennsylvania, an extensive library of regional and state histoy and local authors, a large manuscript and photo collection and a massive collection of records of the Erie Railroad.

Baldwin House Museum 

In 1843 US Supreme Cousrt Justice Henry Baldwin built a house which was a retirement home. Unfortunately, he died during a trip to Philadelphia in 1844. His wife, Sally, leased the house and grounds to the Meadville Female Seminary for a period of three years. At the end of the lease the property was purchased by William Reynolds. In 1846 the Reynolds family moved in. Reynolds was a lawyer, businessman, first Mayor of Meadville and President of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway. Reynolds made many changes to the house during the time he and his family lived there. William Reynolds died on January 11, 1911 and his wife, Julia, died eight days later on January 19. Reynolds' elder son, Henry, had died in 1908 so the house passed to the younger son, John Earle Reynolds. John Earle died in 1947 and his wife lived in the house until her death in 1963. After her death the house was purchased by the the Crawford County Historical Society who has maintainted the house since that time as a muesum.