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Notable Sewickley

Sewickley in the (Old) Movies
Signals, April 2019 “Sewickley is in the movies heart and soul, and while the Cot Club with Miss Bleecker as directress is really the...
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“With the Colors” in January 1919
Signals, Feburary 2019 The end of World War I in November 1918 did not mean that all of the troops were home. The following appeared in...
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The SVHS “Attic”
Signals, March 2019 Sewickley Valley Historical Society’s collection includes a great deal of material of interest to Civil War buffs,...
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2019 Architectural Preservation Award
Signals, May 2019 As part of its mission, Sewickley Valley Historical Society encourages preservation of the architectural heritage of...
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U. S. Brig Niagara: 1813 & Today
Signals, November 2019 Wednesday, November 13, 2019 7:30 p.m., at the Old Sewickley Post Office A PowerPoint Presentation by Edd Hale On...
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Further Perambulations of Bayard Christy
Signals, March 2020 This month we revisit the notebooks of Sewickley birder and naturalist Bayard Christy, recently presented to the...
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A Big War-School
Signals, October 2019 Last month, Sewickley Valley Historical Society showed, for the first time since 1940, the film documenting the...
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SVHS Confronts COVID-19
Signals, May 2020 A Message from Harton Semple, President of the Board The world has been turned upside down by this pandemic, and so it...
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The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Sewickley
Signals, October 2009 “What you want, I suppose, is to vote just like the men do.” “Certainly not,” replied Mrs. Baring-Banners. “If we...
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Passenger Pigeon Reminiscences
Signals, November 2009 The following article appeared in the January 1924 issue of The Cardinal, the journal of the Audubon Society of...
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The Depreciation Lands
This article first appeared in the Sewickley Herald, July 10, 2008. Signals, March 2010 You may have noticed that the Sewickley Valley...
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Newly Arrived in America
Signals, February 2010 James Shearer (1833-1902), a stonemason by trade, and his brother William emigrated from Glasgow, Scotland, to the...
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Neville Island
Signals, April 2010 This low-lying island in the middle of the Ohio River ten miles downstream from Pittsburgh was variously known as...
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Sewickley Valley Stern Marks
Signals, May 2010 The following paragraphs are from the beginning of an unfinished and unpublished autobiography by Frederick Way, Jr. I...
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The Edgeworth Female Seminary
Signals, October 2010 When the Edgeworth Female Seminary burned on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 15, 2010, the Valley suffered a...
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The Memoirs of Elizabeth Walker Pontefract
Signals, September 2010 Elizabeth Walker Pontefract (1855-1948) was one of the eight children of Hay and Janet Charters Walker. She grew...
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The Pennsylvania Lines Conservatory
Signals, April 2011 This article first appeared on page 7 of the January 23, 1904, issue of The Weekly Herald. One notable feature of the...
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Departure of “Sewickley Rifles” 45 Years Ago
Signals, May 2011 This article appeared in The Weekly Herald on May 26, 1906, the year that the four Rodman cannons, a gift of the United...
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Sewickley in 1897
Signals, March 2011 The following is excerpted from a paper delivered by Mrs Robert Wardrop (Agnes Dawson Miller, 1853-1941) at the...
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“Pittsburg Phil”
Signals, January/February 2011 In the course of our research, we occasionally come across information about noteworthy individuals from...
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