Boyers is an

unincorporated village An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

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 Connoquen ...

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 County, Pennsylvania, Butler and Venango County, Pennsylvania, Venango Counties in Pennsylvania. The southern terminus is at Pennsylvania Route 8, PA 8 near Butler, Pennsylva ...

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 twentieth century, serviced by a branch of the

Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad was a class II railroad that operated 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, Penn ...

known as the Hilliards branch. The rails were removed in the early 2000s.

Iron Mountain facility

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 is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

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 M ...

close to Boyers. The Corbis photographic collection is stored there. The

United States Office of Personnel Management The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the United States federal civil service. The agency provides federal human resources policy, oversight, and support, an ...

(OPM) operates 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. At an underground

, the retirement of federal employees is processed on paper by hand, and the information is stored in file cabinets. It takes an average of 61 days to process the retirement of each federal employee. The

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stores original records in the Iron Mountain facility.

References

External links

1895 history of Butler County, and Boyers area
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