A Traveler's Guide to Historic Western Pennsylvania

A Traveler's Guide to Historic Western Pennsylvania
Author: Lois Mulkearn
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2010-11-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822975319

This book presents a county-by-county guide to historic landmarks in western Pennsylvania, and how to reach them. Twenty-seven counties are included, along with maps of each. Along the way, travelers will find historic forts, residences of leading citizens, old iron furnaces, grist mills, churches, inns, taverns, tanneries, and many other intriguing places. Historians Lois Mulkearn and Edwin V. Pugh personally visited each site, and provide background vignettes on them, offering interesting facts and highlights gathered from archival documents.

Turtle Creek and Bethel Association Reformed Presbyterian Church

Turtle Creek and Bethel Association Reformed Presbyterian Church
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Allegheny County (Pa.)
ISBN: 9781558563957

David and Elsa Hays took over where the records of the Beaver County Research Center left off. Includes: Old Free Pres. Church, Ref. Presbyterian White Church, New Bethlehem U.P. Church, and Reformed Presbyterian Church (New Galilee) of Darlington Twp.

Streetcar Parishes

Streetcar Parishes
Author: Robert Zecker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book examines how small immigrant groups created a community for themselves if they could never control their own piece of the city, an ethnic ghetto, in which all or nearly all residents shared the same Old Country home. For many immigrants, community was not geographically circumscribed. Creative means existed for drawing widely dispersed people back into an institutionally based community centered on churches, social clubs, fraternal societies, and sporting leagues.