Harrisville, Pennsylvania

Mercer Township is a township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,010 at the 2020 census.

Branchton is an unincorporated community in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located near Pennsylvania Route 8, 3.7 miles (6.0 km) east of Slippery Rock. Branchton had a post office until April 23, 2005; it still has its own ZIP code, 16021.

On March 1, 2000, a racially motivated shooting spree occurred in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, when 39-year-old Ronald Taylor, a black man who embraced anti-white and anti-semitic ideologies, shot and killed three white men and injured two others within an eight block radius. Hours later, Taylor surrendered to police and was sentenced to death in 2002.

Barkeyville is a borough in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 186 at the 2020 census.

Bovard is an unincorporated community in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located on Slippery Rock Creek 4.5 miles (7.2 km) east of Slippery Rock.

McMurray Run is a small tributary of Slippery Rock Creek in western Pennsylvania. The stream rises in northwestern Butler County and flows south entering Slippery Rock Creek at Rock Hill Camp. The watershed is roughly 39% agricultural, 53% forested and the rest is other uses.

Wendell August Forge is America's oldest and largest such forge still in existence in the United States. The original facility was a historic landmark in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. The company operates retail stores in Grove City, and Berlin, Ohio, and Wilmington, North Carolina; the forge and the stores are well-known tourist destinations. Wendell August was the first to use the repoussé process of manufacture, and has operated near Grove City since 1932. It produces a variety of merchandise, including Americana, such as bowls, figurines and ornaments, as well as commemorative items.First founded by coal miner Wendell McMinn August in 1923 in Brockway, Pennsylvania, it moved to Grove City almost a decade later. When that facility was built in 1932, the forge was a simple one-story rectangular building measuring approximately 60 feet (18 m) by 160 feet (49 m); its frame was steel, constructed on a foundation of poured concrete. That property was located in a primarily residential neighborhood.

Grove City College (GCC) is a private, conservative Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1876 as a normal school, the college emphasizes a humanities core curriculum and offers 60 majors and six pre-professional programs with undergraduate degrees in the liberal arts, sciences, business, education, engineering, and music. The college has always been formally non-denominational, but in its first few decades its students and faculty were dominated by members of the Presbyterian Church, to the extent that it was sometimes described as having a de facto Presbyterian affiliation; in more recent decades, it and the Presbyterian Church have moved apart.

Slippery Rock Township is a township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 6,719 at the 2020 census.The township takes its name from Slippery Rock Creek, which flows through its borders.

Mihalik-Thompson Stadium is a stadium in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania at Slippery Rock University. The facility includes Bob DiSprato field, William Lenox Track, Gail Rose stadium Lodge and the Jerry Bujbel weight training facility. The stadium is primarily used for NCAA Division II sports including football, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and track and field. The facility is the home field of the Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. The stadium was built in 1974 and has a capacity of 10,000. In the fall of 2003, Bob DiSprato field was changed from grass to AstroPlay and lights were added to the facility.Old Thompson Stadium was the home for Slippery Rock's football team prior to the Mihaluk-Thompson Stadium's completion in 1974.

Slippery Rock University (CDP) is a census-designated place located in Slippery Rock Township, Butler County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It consists of the portion of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania that lies outside the borough of Slippery Rock, and the student residential population makes up the majority of the CDP's population. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,898.

McDonald Run is a 3.07 mi (4.94 km) long tributary to Slippery Rock Creek that rises near Forestville in Butler County, Pennsylvania and flows south to meet Slippery Rock Creek near Branchton.