Bradford County Historical Society
Born out of the Bradford County Medical Society, the Bradford County Historical Society was organized on May 5, 1870, and incorporated on February 12, 1875.
In 1998, the Bradford County Commissioners voted to deed the former county jail on Pine Street in Towanda to the Bradford County Historical Society to be renovated and used as the new home of the society museum and research library. In 2000, the research library phase of the “Jail Project” was completed. The remaining exhibit construction was completed in May 2002, when the entire facility became available for public use.
The mission of the Bradford County Historical Society is: to record and preserve the history of Bradford County by means of documents, publications, tapes, photographs, artifacts, models and samplings of natural resources; to interpret the effect of regional, state, national and world events on the county; to make the record available to the general public; and to stimulate the interest of local people in the history of the county.