Boyers is an unincorporated village in Marion Township, Butler County,

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, United States. It has a small population with a few businesses located in the center of the town.

Slippery Rock Creek Slippery Rock Creek is a stream in western Pennsylvania, a tributary of Connoquenessing Creek. Course and history From its source in Hilliards in Butler County, it flows through McConnells Mill State Park before flowing into the Connoquene ...

flows through the community. The creek's source is a few miles to the east, in the small village of Hilliards.

Pennsylvania Route 308 Pennsylvania Route 308 (PA 308) is a state highway located in Butler and Venango Counties in Pennsylvania. The southern terminus is at PA 8 near Butler. The northern terminus is at State Route 3013 (SR 3013) north of an interchange with the PA ...

is one of the main roads in the area, running through the center of Boyers.

History

Boyers was a large mining community at the turn of the 20th century, serviced by a branch of the

Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad is a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. The railroad's main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio, to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pen ...

known as the Hilliards branch. The rails were removed in the early 2000s. The abandoned mines have provided opportunities for underground storage facilities since 1954. The Iron Mountain Corporation merged with the longtime owner of the facility in 1998 and operates a large storage facility located in a former

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

mine Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to: Extraction or digging * Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging *Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine Grammar *Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun ...

close to Boyers, where the Corbis photographic collection is stored. The

United States Office of Personnel Management The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that manages the US civilian service. The agency provides federal human resources policy, oversight and support, and tends t ...

(OPM) maintains a highly secure facility in an abandoned mine in Boyers which contains all the documents from security clearance proceedings. OPM also operates its processing center for retired Federal employees in Boyers. The

United States Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States. The USPTO's headquarters are in Alexa ...

stores original records in an underground storage facility in Boyers.

References

External links

1895 history of Butler County, and Boyers area
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