The Opening of Woodland Road
Signals, November 2012 Transcribed from The [Sewickey] Herald, Vol. 35, no. 15, March 20, 1941. How Woodland Road, Edgeworth, first...
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The Families & Estates of Coraopolis Heights
Signals, January 2013 Most of the following information is based on Forgotten Past: A History of Moon Township, Pennsylvania, by Robert...
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Economy; A Unique Community
Signals, February 2013 Economy? Not the economy dinned into most of us for our youth up, so suggestive of turned gowns, steamed velvets,...
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The Railroad in Edgeworth
Signals, March 2013 Transcribed from an unpublished manuscript by Frederick Way, Jr., The Ohio & Pennsylvania Rail Road Co. commenced...
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The Old Stable
Signals, April 2013 The following is excerpted from a “rambling boyhood chronicle, set down in piecemeal and from time to time, during...
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The Civil War in Pennsylvania
Signals, September 2013 Please note that, due to unforeseen circumstances, the program by Peter Gilmore scheduled for Wednesday,...
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Historical Society
Signals, May 2013 Minutes of the 1st Formative Meeting Thurs., Feb. 22, 1973 – 1:00 P.M. Sewickley Public Library – Meeting Room At the...
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Neville Island Gardens to Give Way to Great U. S. Ordnance Plant
Signals, November 2013 Uncle Sam’s “Yankee Doodle” new garden on Neville Island will yield ordinance [sic] instead of onions, artillery...
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Our Village and Valley
SEWICKLEY OUTLINED, ANALYSED, CENSUSED AND GENERALLY DISCUSSED Signals, October 2013 The two articles that follow appeared in The Valley...
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An 1817 Visit to Pittsburgh
Signals, March 2014 The following is taken from an article in The Pittsburgh Gazette Times, Sunday, April 29, 1923: “Century Old Tales of...
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Some Recent Acquisitions
Signals, January 2014 Sewickley Valley Historical Society regularly receives gifts of items of historical interest significant to the...
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Western Pennsylvania in Colonial Days
Signals, May 2014 The following is adapted from an article by George T. Fleming in The Pittsburgh Gazette Times, April 1915, entitled...
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September is a VERY busy month!
Signals, September 2014 Land of Canaan: The Scots-Irish Presbyterian Experience in Early Western Pennsylvania WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24 7:30...
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Roselea Farm
Signals, April 2014 In 1905, Pittsburgh attorney George E. Shaw (see below) commissioned the architectural firm of MacClure and Spahr to...
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The Homewood Cemetery in a Variety of Contexts
Signals, January 2015 Thursday, February 5, 2015 Dinner, 6:15 p.m. & Program, 7:30 p.m. Shannopin Country Club, Ben Avon Heights, PA Ben...
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Shippingport Nuclear Power Station, 1957-1974
Signals, April 2015 Shippingport had a relatively short life—less than twenty years; the normal design life of a power station is at...
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