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Notable Sewickley


SVHS Confronts COVID-19
Signals, May 2020 A Message from Harton Semple, President of the Board The world has been turned upside down by this pandemic, and so it...
Aug 24, 202318 min read


Sewickley in 1897
Signals, March 2011 The following is excerpted from a paper delivered by Mrs Robert Wardrop (Agnes Dawson Miller, 1853-1941) at the...
Aug 24, 20237 min read


The Whiskey Rebellion
Signals, April 2012 As we peruse with consternation our 2013 Allegheny County property tax assessments, with another group of aggrieved...
Aug 23, 20234 min read


Our Village and Valley
SEWICKLEY OUTLINED, ANALYSED, CENSUSED AND GENERALLY DISCUSSED Signals, October 2013 The two articles that follow appeared in The Valley...
Aug 23, 20238 min read


“Cottonmouths and Cotton” reprinted in S&D Reflector
by B.G. Shields Signals, February 2006 Without a doubt, there’s a bit of Huck Finn in most Americans. In the late Captain Frederick Way,...
Aug 23, 20235 min read


The Birthday of a Bridge
by Gloria G. Berry Signals, October 2006 October 21, 2006, marks the 25th Anniversary of the new (2nd) Sewickley Bridge. The original...
Aug 23, 20235 min read


History of the Samuel Adams House, 940 Beaver Street, Sewickley, PA
by Mary Beth Pastorius Signals, October 2007 The house was built for Samuel Adams, a native of Ireland, and his wife Jennie Arrott Adams...
Aug 23, 20236 min read


Meet me at the corner of Broad & Beaver...
Broad & Beaver is
the local equivalent of Hollywood & Vine
Jun 7, 20232 min read
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