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The Edgeworth Club: Celebrating 125 Years
Signals, October 2018 Wednesday, October 17th 7:30 p.m., at the Old Sewickley Post Office For 125 years, the Edgeworth Club has been a...
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Steamboats Were Built Here
Signals, May 2018 The following was excerpted from two articles written by Fred Way, Jr., in July 1960, when he was summertime editor of...
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The Trolley Controversy in Sewickley
Signals, September 2018 Although trolley lines were extensive in other places in Allegheny and Beaver Counties, they were never laid in...
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Sewickley Centential
Signals, September 2019 One Hundredth Anniversary of the Naming of the Town “Sewickleyville” In June of 1940, Sewickley celebrated its...
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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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