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

• Sharon Congregational Church

• The twin railroad bridges and the Mill Street bridge

• Sharon Tube Co.

• 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