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