John Keith joined the Brockway Area Historical Society in 2005. His interest in the history along Little Toby Creek has led him through every town, village, and ghost town, and along every logging railroad in the valley. It is his hope that the images in Brockway and Little Toby Valley will help to renew the interest in history throughout the area. A majority of the photographs in the Brockway Area Historical Society, formed in 1953, were donated by local citizens, and the Taylor Memorial Museum was constructed in 1972 to house hundreds of artifacts collected by the founders of the society.