Greater Hazleton Historical Society and Museum

05/24/2025

The Museum will be open from 10am to 3pm on Sunday, Memorial Day weekend. We will be featuring archives from the Standard-Speaker. Admission is $5 per person.

12/01/2024

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY: The Museum will be open today from 10am to 3pm. $5 per person.

11/30/2024

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY: The museum will be open tomorrow from 10am to 3pm. Charge is $5 per person.

07/06/2024

OPEN HOUSE TOMORROW: The Museum will be open from 10am to 3pm tomorrow, Sunday! Admission is $5 per person.

05/29/2024

Check out this poignant, beautifully done documentary on Hazleton's heritage

03/27/2024

OPEN HOUSE ON HOLY SATURDAY. The Museum will be open from 10am to 3pm this Saturday; admission is $5 per person! Check out our three floors of breathtaking memorabilia!

11/26/2023

The Museum will be open today from 10am to 3pm. Admission is $5 per person.

11/21/2023

Here's a Hazleton-focused piece reflecting on the sixtieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Sixty autumns have passed since the assassination of John F. Kennedy that Friday, Nov. 22, a day that traumatized a generation of children and revealed the...

11/04/2023

The Historical Society honors the life of John Probert, Hazleton's preeminent historian, who passed away on Tuesday. John's knowledge of the Mountain City was boundless. He had an insatiable appetite to learn, and his command of wide-ranging subjects should inspire others to solve those riddles of history, to turn every page.

John's meticulous caretaking of the Vine Street Cemetery, where he served as the long-time association president, reflected his sense of civic duty but also his love for Hazleton. We will never again encounter a man with such a breadth of knowledge, creative spirit, and commitment to his hometown. His memories of this city were vivid and captivating and went back to his early childhood.

John O'Hara is remembered as the chronicler of this region's past. John Probert knew far more—and he touched the lives of all who were lucky enough to talk to him, to learn from him.

We extend our condolences to the Probert family.

Here is a link to John's obituary: https://www.moranfuneralhome.com/Probert/probert.php

An article in today's Standard-Speaker on John's life:
https://www.standardspeaker.com/news/john-probert-jr-caretaker-of-hazletons-history/article_e9f4ae7d-cedd-593a-b87f-ed86fa3a64df.html

07/02/2023

OPEN HOUSE TODAY. The Museum will be open from 10am to 3pm today. Admission is $5 per person.

05/29/2023

Memorial Day, 1988, at St. Gabriel’s Cemetery

05/23/2023

MEMORIAL DAY OPEN HOUSE THIS SUNDAY, MAY 28: The Museum will be open from 10am to 3pm. Admission is $5 per person.

Here's a photo of downtown Hazleton in April 1940: