Early Automobiles in Sewickley
Signals, November 2015 As of August 12, 1905, there were 53 automobiles owned in the Sewickley Valley, representing twenty different...
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The History of Telephone Service in the Sewickley Valley
Eleven years later in March 1887, the first central telephone office was opened in Sewickley.
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“A Two Ferry Tale” by Franklin T. Nevin
Signals, September 2016 Author Of The “Village of Sewickley” Reprinted from the Sewickley Herald, November 30, 1928 When the Ohio River...
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Sewickley Photos
Signals, May 2016 The first photograph, a rather familiar one from the Society’s Bicentennial collection, shows the transport of one of...
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Steamboats on the Ohio River
Signals, April 2016 The first steam-powered boat on the Ohio River, called the New Orleans, was constructed in Pittsburgh in 1811 by...
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White Violets, A Thread of Memories By Cornelia Wolfe Dickson
Signals, November 2016 Reminiscences on the occasion of her 80th birthday by Cornelia Frances Wolfe Dickson [born 1896], one of seven...
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An Early Voyage Past Sewickley
Signals, March 2017 Following is an excerpt from Sketches of a Tour of the Western Country, including a Voyage down the Ohio and...
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“The Friendly River” by Franklin T. Nevin
Signals, October 2016 Author Of The “Village of Sewickley” Reprinted from the Sewickley Herald, April 13, 1928 [Written as the railroad,...
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Pittsburgh’s Mansions
Signals, April 2017 Wednesday, April 26th, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Old Sewickley Post Office A Presentation by Melanie Gutowski, Author In the...
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The Railroad in Edgeworth
Signals, April 2018 The following is from a manuscript written by Capt. Frederick Way, Jr. (1901-1992), in which he presented “in capsule...
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Discovering Gold
Signals, September 2017 By B.G. Shields Bill Carson was luckier than most boys who dream of finding buried treasure. He discovered his...
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Celebrating Pittsburgh: Its Character and Significance
Signals, March 2018 Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:30 p.m., at the Old Sewickley Post Office A PowerPoint Presentation by Louise Sturgess,...
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The Ku Klux Klan in Sewickley
Signals, November 2017 In her 2000 book Their Story: The History of Blacks/ African Americans in Sewickley & Edgeworth, Bettie Cole...
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The Origin of Some Indian Place Names in Western Pennsylvania
Signals, October 2017 The first inhabitants of the valley of the Allegheny and Ohio of which tradition affords reliable information were...
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Celebrating Sewickley: The 1895 Version
Signals, November 2018 What follows is from an introduction G. F. Muller wrote in June 1895 for Sewickley Valley Society, Sewickley’s...
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