Olmsted really got around!!

I disbelieve that. I disbelieve that they started this in 1846. I think all of red brick Trafford was built... Just like much of the city and the incline. We stole this land.. sir you need the mud flood community in your life.. Michelle Gibson is truly considered the professor of this community. Cannot stress how good she is. JonLevi Stellium7 Mind Unveiled Jarid Boosters Autodidact Our Melted Realm My Lunch Break Every one of those channels is excellent. Every one of them brings a lot to the table.. the history that you are speaking of is the robber baron history. If you're still with us.. please check this out. You'll never see your city your state of the world the same ever again.

A few days ago (Dec 3 2024), there was an accident in Marguerite where a woman went looking for her cat and a sinkhole above one of the mine tunnels opened up - she was killed, unfortunately. The news is saying that the mine was owned by the Fricks and last used in 1952. They might benefit from your information (in retrospect) as you say the Fricks stopped using the mine at the start of the Great Depression. To save you some time, the sinkhole is about 30 feet to the east of Marguerite Rd. (the north-south road just east of the town) just at the stream. It's southeast of the restaurant at that property (Monday's Union Restaurant) - if you look and see where Bernie Stone Road crosses Marguerite Road and then curves upward to meet Marguerite Road again - the sinkhole is exactly where the road curves north again, just under the road itself. I am guessing it had something to do with water runoff to the creek weakening the soil around where the mine shaft was dug there. Your info might be useful to the people who are still working on clearing that area after the accident.

Here due to the mine collapse that happened this past week. Very informative, thank you.

Thanks Jim for these films. My Great Grandfather worked in Oceans #2 and passed away from injuries in a explosion in 1899. When I can see and hear of the past sometimes it fills the voids.

Excited to find this. Thank you for all the information you share!

It is the hometown of mr fred rogers he was more than a good man and he was our neighbor on mr rogers neighborhood and without him our neighborhoods will never be the same

There’s a brick marker of where the actual fort stood just below the elementary school.

Terrible

Did Rodebaugh own the Mt.Odin area?

Thank you! Can't wait for video number 2.

Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge of Western Pennsylvania history. You truly are an asset our community. I am so grateful that you continue to make these. Take care my friend!

Jim, do you have a business email? I’d like to get in touch about learning more, including any titles you recommend.

My hometown. Thank you for preserving our beautiful local history.

Another well done effort, Jim. Thank you again for all your thought and energy in putting this together.

The last photo of the stone building used to be the Water Office. My Grandma worked there, but originally began working at the pump house on the river. My Grandad owned the hardware store.

Thanks for another great video, Jim. I so enjoy these!

Thank you, Jim, for another excellent installment. These historical treatments are so important, I think. You're providing quite a valuable historical record for future generations.

Another excellent video, Jim. I especially appreciated having the combination of your overview as well as the drive-by footage. Well done.

A great video, Jim. Quite informative. Well done. Thank you for producing and loading this up. I appreciate all the effort you put into this.

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I just found your You Tube Channel! Watching your videos are bringing back a flood of memories. My Mother was born in Hillside. My Father was born in Brenizer. I was born in Latrobe. My Mother’s father worked for Westinghouse making insulators.

My grandfather worked making those insulators for Westinghouse!

Great research Jim,I wish someone in my area of Pa. were as knowledgable as you are of your area!

Mr. Miller - Thanks for posting this information. At 9:16 your curser touches plats 214 and 215 on Highway Street. That's where my great-grandfather, George Albert "Bert" Fulmer (1862-1937) lived. He built the house and still extant. He was a carpenter and building contractor. He was also a gifted blacksmith. The blacksmith shop on that same plat was his also. He co-founded Yukon Lumber Company. Bert was contracted by Westmoreland Coal Company to clear-cut and build what would become Yukon prior to 1908. He was also responsible for constructing the company homes in neighboring Wyano for the Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Company (hence the acronym: Y&O = Wyano). Also built "New Blocks" and Hutchinson 1924-1925. Before the Yukon branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad was completed, they moved tree logs down Sewickley Creek to the area of the future lumber yard for milling. Steam powered tractors were utilized (with fly wheels on the side) to operate the make-shift saw mills which could relocate to any area under construction. Those years prior the opening of the Osborne and Magee Mines were difficult for the resident farmers and long-time property owners. Many of the families were cheated and hood-winked out of their rightful share due to poor education and under-handed business dealings (mineral rights, rights-of-way) and they couldn't grasp or foresee what all this meant (heavy industry, mass immigration and environmental poisoning). What goes around - comes around: Quiz a random young person living in the area of Wyano or Yukon about how the towns came to be and they'll look at you with a vacant stare and shrug "I dunno". That's sorta' the way it was in South Huntingdon Township back in the 1900s...they didn't know or see it coming.

Grew up in Bolivar good to know why somethings about the house I live in is so odd

I believe it was called Denison because of the mine. They named The inn mountain view and we all just kind of started referring to the area by the name of the inn. Caarney station road it's about the only reference to Caarney I did see something an article once about where the train station used to be in Carney. I've been back to the remnants of the old Denison mine there's a train tunnel off of Donahue road if you follow through it and out the other side it leads you to the old mine area

Clear the throat and take sips off camera. Thats when pause and edits come in. Its really hard to listen too. Just a friendly thought for the next recordings. Good work on the info of the towns! I grew up in Charleroi. Lived on North Side for years. Moved to New Florence 5 years ago to get out the city and ended up settling in Bolivar. I knew some info but definitely learned alot about the New Flo Seward Bolivar areas after watching the vids.. appreciate the content!

Recalling what happened to criminals on Urania Ave....comment now JM in recent times April 2024. Z

Jim, I enjoyed the piece on the pennsy in Youngwood, pa. Never would have known how massive of an operation without your research… thank you …

Thanks for sharing. Where did you get all the information on Dorothy? My Grandparents and many cousins live and lived in the patch. We moved to California when I was just an infant.

Extremely interesting awesome video !

Nice view of the chapel and house at the Ridge

Thanks for sharing this information on the old PA coke and coal towns, Jim. You indicated the lot where Jan Novotny lived in 1919. Can you steer me toward your sources on that? I think he was my great Uncle, trying to confirm.

I grew up in Bolivar in the 60's. I remember Ollie Henderson's store. It was a great place to get hard rock candy. My grandmother lived in the house on the left of the Shaefer St picture. I remember sitting on that basement door as a child. Thanks for sharing these photos.

Thank you we appreciate the time and effort it took to create this video. You truly are a book of knowledge!

I have been watching your videos for years but never took the opportunity to say thank you. So THANK YOU Mr. Jim Miller for preserving this history not only for us but future generations!

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As a firefighter, in the 80s, Torrance Hospital was where I interviewed for my first fire related career position, as they were looking for a "fire safety officer". Needless to say I did not get the job. WHile you make fun of your programs and delivery, and I grew up in West Mifflin (Pittsburgh), I had an Aunt who lived outside of Blairsville on US 22 across from Dean's diner in that red ranch house right after you cross the overpass that separates her house from Dean's, and old Bonarrigo Ford dealership. Her husband for decades ran the Atlantic/ARCO gas station about a half mile east and I think is a restaurant now. Unfortunately, he was murdered in 1980 by a 16 year old neighbor boy who robbed the gas station and got $200 and spent it going to a concert in Pittsburgh that evening. He was caught and spent some 16 years in prison, but was released and my Aunt passed away in the 90s. While Blairsville is "just across the line" from Westmoreland Co. I would appreciate if you did a series on the town some day. In the 70s I used t spend weeks in the SUmmer with her and we'd walk into town for her to shop and run errands and sometimes take a bus to Indiana where she'd shop at Penn Traffic. I'd take her lab mix up into the neighboring field ad we'd explore, play in the creeks and dodge the cow pies, often when we got "home" the dog and I would have to go in the basement and hose off the mud and cow manure we'd managed to pick up on our adventures. I went through Blairsville on my way to Pittsburgh from an Altoona model train convention a few years back and was shocked at how much the area on US 22 had grown,, as well as how now the entire road is 4 lanes (I had a school friend who went to Penn State and was a teacher in Mt Union and we'd joke that by the time we died 22 would be 4 lanes all the way. Well now it almost is, at least to Hollidaysburg. I enjoy your "waltzes through memory lane" and suspect you are a retired history teacher and really I enjoy your programs. I know you keep them short because a lot of us (including me) avoid really long programs, but 20 minutes is a good length, as Carol BUrnett used to sing "by the time we get into your show, it's time to say so long"...

My grandmother used to own the Red Brick House left of the Stone House. She sold it in 1979

My grandmother used to live in the red brick house directly across from Foodarama. her last name was Nesbitt

Thank you for your excellent research!

Hi Jim, I am a descendant of Adam George through his son Conrad Samuel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. - David George

Nice video. I kayaked from Bolivar to Blairsville last summer. Great trip. Packsaddle was awsome and seeing old remnants of the canal was cool too.

My wife's family is all from Claridge. They are starting to see a startling amount of cancer. Not only within the family, but the friends and neighbors. Think there's something going on???

AH yes. I was a student nurse at Torrance. We did our psyche rotation there. I lived in Derry just a few miles down the road. We did a mandatory rotation from our Latrobe Hospital three year diploma program. Class of 1966. Marilyn Fioravanti.

GREAT HISTORY BUFF MUST VISIT THE PLACE

Great video! Thanks Jim

Thank You Jim, you are a patriot !

Very nice learned a few new things. Do you by chance know when and why there are 3 coal hoppers buried some what by the tracks in Torrance? Do u have any other pics of the station I've been looking everywhere for long time