History Walk - Revisiting Along the Shenango River Waterfront
History Walk - Revisiting Along the Shenango River Waterfront
September 2025: Revisiting Along the Shenango River Waterfront (40 pages, 5.5 x 8.5")
NOTE: This is an updated and expanded edition of the August 2017 tour and booklet
Highlights:
G. C. Murphy Co. Five and Dime/Outdoor Army-Navy/Allie's Sweet Tooth building
42-44 E. State St., the single-story building disguised as a 2-story
State Street bridges through the centuries
The First National Bank building
Floods in downtown Sharon
The Protected Home Circle/Gilbert's Risk Solutions building
Geo. S. Warren Jr. Park and the giant can opener artwork
The old Chestnut Street city hall/fire department
The original Quaker Steak & Lube restaurant
Moe’s Way Riverwalk
Old Chestnut Street bridge
The 1904 Sharon High School
River Gardens Park (formerly Bicentennial Park)
The original home of Daffin’s Candies
The Hannah building and the antique peddler's wagons that sat forgotten in an old barn behind it
1970s urban renewal and the giant shopping mall, office tower and rotating restaurant that was never built
A color 1920 Sanborn Map Co map showing every structure in the tour area
A mid-1950s aerial view of the downtown and South Ward when it was filled with houses and businesses before urban renewal removed them