History Walk - Revisiting the North Flats: Shenango and Penn Avenues

History Walk - Revisiting the North Flats: Shenango and Penn Avenues

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July 2024: Revisiting the North Flats: Shenango and Penn Avenues (44 pages, 5.5 x 8.5")

Highlights:
The Great Flood of 1913 and modern floods, including the 1959 Ice Flood
The current and 1910 post office building
Shenango Valley Water Co.
Sharon Motor Co., later the Salvation Army and Shenango Valley Civic Center
Herald Square and the Elks lodge site at Pitt Street and Shenango Avenue, including a never-built 9-story hotel that was intended to be the Shenango Inn community-funded hotel
First Federal/Huntington Bank tower
The V Bridges
The Welsh church on Penn Avenue and Sharon Congregational Church
The twin railroad bridges and the Mill Street bridge
Sharon Tube Co. and the North Works of Carnegie Steel
Joseph Yazvac, the only Sharon policeman killed in the line of duty
House of Israel synagogue/Christ the King Catholic church
A villain in the ‘hood: Career criminal Harold Brest, who tried to escape from Alcatraz
Sharon schools/Penn State Shenango Campus
The Primary Health Network tower
Evangelist Billy Sunday brings his crusade to town in 1908
Color 1920 Sanborn Map Co map showing every structure in the tour area

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