Packed with information and photographs that are unique to the area around O'Hara Township in Allegheny County, Pa., including Aspinwall, Blawnox, Fox Chapel, and Sharpsburg.
With this CD, you can search transcribed deeds and court minutes from the 1770s; search for well over 40,000 Monongahela Valley residents; and learn much more of this area's history from the mid 1700s to the early 1900s.
Told in word, photograph, and drawing is the story of the remarkable men and the equally remarkable railroad they built into the city of Pittsburgh at the turn of the 20th Century.
From its humble beginning to its calculated demise at the hands of those who exploited it for gain and profit, the West Side Belt Railroad was instrumental in shaping the future of Pittsburgh and the surrounding region.
