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    Glenshaw
    Glenshaw
    Glenshaw
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    Glenshaw

    By Violet F. Rowe

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    Captivating and entertaining, this new collection of historic images brings to life the past of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, focusing on the period between the mid-1800s to the 1940s.


    Captivating and entertaining, this new collection of historic images brings to life the past of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, focusing on the period between the mid-1800s to the 1940s. With insightful captions and breathtaking images, readers are introduced to many of the early residents who shaped the future of this area of Shaler Township, and we are transported back in time to see early homes and places of work, play, worship, and education. In 1800, John Shaw Sr. purchased 600 acres of land just 8 miles north of the city of Pittsburgh. He built a log sawmill to prepare lumber for his home, and later built a log gristmill which stood until 1845 when his son replaced it with a larger mill. The new mill stood on property across from the local school, and the area became known as "Shaw's Glen. During the period covered in this book, Shaler Township, incorporated in 1837, grew from a quiet milltown of just 2,000 residents to a bustling suburb of the Steel City. Today, over 33,000 people call this area home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateOct 1, 1997
    ISBN9781439615997
    Glenshaw
    Author

    Violet F. Rowe

    Many of the images included in this remarkable volume were generously contributed by Arthur J. Pete McMasters, a Glenshaw native and avid photographer. Author Violet F. Rowe has gathered additional rare photographs from the wonderful collections of the Glenshaw Library and the Shaler Historical Society. Revealing in crisp detail the physical and social history of Glenshaw and Shaler Township, these images of daily life and special moments bring into focus Glenshaw's past, and help us better envision the area's future.

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      Glenshaw - Violet F. Rowe

      Places

      Introduction

      This book covers pictures of the Glenshaw area from 1800 to about the 1940s. It shows what the area, the people, and the industries looked like then, and how the community has grown.

      When Shaler Township was incorporated in 1837, it had a population of 2,000. By 1860 the population was 16,399. Its present population is 33,000.

      In 1800, John Shaw Sr. purchased 600 acres of land just 8 miles north of the city of Pittsburgh in Shaler Township. He built a log sawmill to prepare the lumber for his home. Later, Shaw built a log gristmill, which stood until 1845, when his son built a larger gristmill. This new mill stood on the property across from the Glenshaw School, in an area called Shaw’s Glen.

      I am going to quote from Sylvester Wagner’s My Childhood Memory Sketches, which is dated June 1, 1944. These quoted paragraphs best describes the Glenshaw that is shown in this book.

      "Glenshaw was a very small town with not too many people. There was plenty of wide open spaces and quite a few farms. We had a general store—Edgar’s—and a post office, and a public school, a railroad station, and one of the first public libraries. There was also a gas station with one hand pump and free air. Glenshaw was on both sides of Route 8, the main road leading north. Etna was our neighbor town to the south. There was two parts to Glenshaw, Upper Glenshaw and Lower Glenshaw. Lower Glenshaw, where I lived, consisted of Sourkraut Row, the Flats, and Tony Town. The Shaw homestead was in Lower Glenshaw, and from these early settlers the town was named ‘Glenshaw, or Shaw’s Glen.’ Upper Glenshaw, which ran from present day Undercliff Fire Company to St. Bonaventure Church. In between these two landmarks lay the farms of the Braun family, the Hoffman’s, the Bustler’s, the Wetzel’s, the Schmidt’s, the Christof’s and the McClure’s. The McClure farm was also known as the Stock Farm, because there always was a lot of cattle grazing there to become fat before being sent to the slaughterhouse. Jr. McClure had a hired tenant family that worked the one hundred or so acres he owned adjacent to Mt. Royal Blvd. The family who ran his farm was named Carrigen and during the influenza plague of 1918, Mrs. Carrigan and 7 of the 10 children died. Mr. Carrigan moved to a different locale shortly after and the farm went to pot after that. The large brick homestead is still occupied and is located across from ‘North Hills Library.’

      "Heading north out of Etna, about 1930, the back way was along Little Pine Creek Rd. It started at Wilson Street and ended at the Cristof and Wetzel farms. Here it turned into Wetzel Road and this road ended up on Mt. Royal Blvd. There was two things memorable about this road. First at Beyerle Avenue there was a huge icehouse owned by Ralph Beyerle. He had large ice ponds alongside the creek, and he cut and stored the ice blocks all winter.

      "The most popular swimming hole was Locust Grove, where the K-Mart sits today. The next was the dam at Glenshaw Glass. This place was always crowded and all had a good time frolicking in

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