History Walk - North Sharon: Thornton Hall Area
History Walk - North Sharon: Thornton Hall Area
July 2023: North Sharon: Thornton Hall area (32 pages, 5.5 x 8.5")
Highlights:
Former Thornton/McClintock elementary school served both Hickory and Sharon school districts, and Sharon's 1928 annexation of North Sharon Hickory Township land
The free Buhl Farm golf course (Dum Dum)
The former circus grounds at Bon Air Avenue and Thornton Street
Ristvey radio and electronics shop
North Sharon Volunteer Fire Co., the civic organization that never really fought a fire
Paul Krivosh Little League field
John Piccirilli Parking Area
Robert Price Recreation Area
Nurseryman Charles Heinz, the father of North Sharon and cousin of H.J. Heinz.
Early North Sharon landowners
Neighborhood architecture:
1247 Hall Ave.
1207 Hall Ave.
1327 Hall Ave.
1364 Hall Ave.
1365 Hall Ave.
1377 Hall Ave.
1395 Hall Ave.
Thornton Hollow, the streetcar viaduct buried beneath the roadway and how 350 feet of Hermitage keeps the city of Sharon and the borough of Sharpsville from ever touching
Dewey Park and the Deweyville neighborhood
Thornton Hall Bowling Lanes
Color 1957 Sanborn Map Co. fire-insurance map showing every structure in the tour area