 My name is Carol Sweeney. I started looking up the history of Freeport and got connected with Gordon, who is the master, and another guy named Rod Chapman, and the stuff that we figured out. Then we got this little church. He bought this church to put all the historical stuff in here, which is amazing. And now I belong to Freeport Renaissance Association. We have events like September by the River and Christmas in Freeport, and the money that we make there helps beautify and revitalize Freeport. And that's what I do here. I'm Gordon Brenneman. I've been a long time Freeport area resident. I was born right over here on the 6th Street. Started out collecting airheads and running around through the area, looking for airheads and digging them up. Just started getting interested in other sections of the history. We needed a place for the History Center. This was the perfect place. I've always hated to see these old buildings torn down. So I thought, well, this won't get torn down while I have it. This was built in 1837. It's one of the oldest buildings in Freeport now. Freeport is actually known as the jewel on the Allegheny River. We have a gazebo down there that's beautiful. We put docks in there down there. So it is a friendly, beautiful little burrow. Of course, there's the Guggenheimer Distillery, and they were the largest distillery of Rye Whiskey in the world. They had several locations here. One was down in the lower end of Freeport and went over near Laneville, and then the main section was on the island up there, or what we call the island now. They produced the Rye Whiskey, with several bottles over here that the label's still on them. We have Massey Harbison. He was a settler here, and the Indians came and raided her house and took her hostage. I'll read it a little bit to you. The most famous town in Freeport history was captured by Indians of an early settler named Massey Harbison. Years before the time was established, Mrs. Harbison and her soldier husband, John Harbison, settled in the area. One day in 1792, while Harbison was on a scouting trip, Indians raided his house, murdered Harbison's three-year-old boy, and took his wife and five-year-old son and baby captain. They forced the women and children to travel on foot into what is now Butler County, where the five-year-old was also killed. After six days, Mrs. Harbison escaped with her baby. They made their way to a cow path that led to Six Mile Island, just across a river where Highland Park is today. There she saw three men on the opposite side of the river. One of the men came across to rescue her. It is recorded that she was returned to safety. About 150 thorns were removed from her feet. She was reunited with her husband, John, the next day, and they moved from Freeport to Slatelik. They would later return to Freeport. We also have a famous actor that was born here, Dawn Taylor from a while ago. He was born in 1920. I'm sure some of the older people will remember him. He was a very good looking guy. He was an actor and a director from 1943 to 1988. He's very handsome. Then we have the grist bill that's down here. They milled flour down there. It closed its doors in 1965, ending a 67-year of Mickey's mill milling business. The original equipment is still in there. The mill also serves as a stop along the Butler to Freeport trail. The Buffalo Creek route of the trail extends into Laneville. They use that trail to get down there and to visit this old historical place. We have another guy. We have Dr. David Alter, a famous inventor. He made an electric motor and a little later he announced the development of a telegraph that could speak, in other words, the telephone. So we have a famous invented spectrum analysis. Yes. A lot of stuff is a big huge tombstone up in the cemetery here. Yes, exactly. It has all the stuff he did carved into. And then in 1840 the physician constructed what he called an electric buggy, the forerunner of the automobile. He invented a rotary motor for the extraction of oil from coal. He invented a process to extract bromides from the waste of salt wells along Allegheny River. Bromides had been scarce and very costly. He was Freeport's first photographer taking pictures only for his own amusement. And he has some kind of a technique for spectrum analysis. He was born in 1807. He was the first doctor that would travel by horseback to go for his patients. So he was also a doctor along with an inventor. So he was a very famous man. Dutch Lobby was the president of Freeport Brick Company. And when you come into Freeport or the road to the left, it goes back into the Brick Company. It was fairly large business. They made fire bricks for in furnaces for steel mills and so on. And Dutch was quite a fellow. It was a huge industry. He developed the Freeport Park, started up there in about 1963 I believe. The community park and the swimming pool and tennis courts and he did that for the community. They had a railroad up there that went all the way around the park and several places you could see over the mountain and see all of Laneville, part of Freeport. Quite an extensive head and old railroad caboose up there. A rocket ship and a tank. Original tanks and Second World War and a fighter plane. Those all fixed up so you could crawl through it.