Boyers, Pennsylvania

Boyers, Pennsylvania

Boyers is an unincorporated village in Marion Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a small population with a few businesses located in the center of the town. Slippery Rock Creek also flows through the community which forms a few miles to the east in the small village of Hilliards. PA 308 is a small highway that runs through the center of Boyers, and is one of the main roads in the area.

History

Boyers was a large mining community at the turn of the 20th Century, and was once serviced by a branch of the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad known as the Hilliards Branch. The rails were removed in the early 2000s. Corbis also has a large facility located in a former limestone mine, close to Boyers.

External links

* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~pabutler/1895/95x64.htm 1895 history of Butler County, and Boyers area]


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