The Beaver Road: From Indian Trail to Trans-Continental Highway
Signals, March 2015 From time immemorial, Native Americans traveling from the forks of the Ohio River westward followed a well worn path...
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An Early Sewickley Tale
Signals, May 2015 The following story about a white man who had the temerity to try to settle during the American Revolution on Indian...
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Newly Discovered Agnes L. Ellis Publication
Signals, October 2015 Preeminent among printed recollections of life in the Sewickley Valley in the 19th century is the 308 page Lights...
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George Washington Walked Here: Washington’s Six Visits toWestern Pennsylvania
Signals, January 2016 Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 7:30 p.m. Old Sewickley Post Office A Presentation by Gary Augustine, Historian...
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The Indian Capture ofJacob Nicely
by Ronald Earl Nicely A Joint Meeting with the Daniel B. Matthews Historical Society Signals, November 2005 Settler and Indian struggled...
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The unveiling of the A. F. King portrait of Robert Peebles Nevin
Number 1 Signals September 2005 A really FESTIVE occasion is coming up soon! Talk about getting the season off to a good start! In the...
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The Burnt District
Signals, October 2005 Pittsburgh from the South Side, two days after the Great Fire, from a painting in the Carnegie Museum by William...
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Postmark: Sewickley, PA
By B.G. Shields Signals, September 2005 Postcard entitled Entrance to Water Works Park, Sewickley, PA. “Don’t forget to send a postcard”...
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Sewickley's Indian Mounds
by Gilbert Adams Hays Signals, January 2006 The following appeared in The [Weekly] Herald, Vol. VIII, no. 22, Saturday, January 21, 1911,...
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Perception, Fact and Gossip of the Civil War
by Ron Gancas Signals, March 2006 Ron Gancas is President, Chief Executive Officer and Senior Historian at Soldiers & Sailors National...
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“Cottonmouths and Cotton” reprinted in S&D Reflector
by B.G. Shields Signals, February 2006 Without a doubt, there’s a bit of Huck Finn in most Americans. In the late Captain Frederick Way,...
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Sewickley & the Spanish-American War
Signals, May 2006 This photo from The Sewickley Valley shows some of the boys of Battery B. According to the accompanying article, when...
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Meet me at the corner of Broad & Beaver...
by B. G. Shields Signals, April 2006 All over America, the street that intersects the main drag brings forth the prevailing image of that...
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The Camp Meeting Grounds
Signals, September 2006 This postcard from the Sewickley Valley Historical Society collection is postmarked August 12, 1912. In 1868, the...
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The Birthday of a Bridge
by Gloria G. Berry Signals, October 2006 October 21, 2006, marks the 25th Anniversary of the new (2nd) Sewickley Bridge. The original...
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The History of Post Cards and the Sewickley Post Card Book
Signals, November 2006 To be held: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:30 p.m. Sewickley Public Library Community Room Susan Holton and Harton...
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