Lost Towns?
Where did they go?
These locations were given by Researchers, like us! Ellisdale ( 1)Formed in 1899 and is what is now known as Rook (Station) Mansfield? (1) The old name for the Scott Township side of Carnegie Gretna? (1) Chartiers Twp Rosevale? (1) Located at the start of Miller's Run Road in Collier twp. (2)From the Signal Item 05-25-1906 Death Notice for Miss Katie Steiner, last paragraph, The funeral services were held at St Barbara's R C church Rosevale, Wednesday afternoon at 4 O'clock conducted by Rev Father Zolkar, and Rev Father Dougherty, of St Agatha's church, Bridgeville, Interment at Rosevale Cemetery. Marshalsea? (1) Where Mayview State Hospital is located now. Who helped to lay out the borough od Mansfield? Wm Nicholson aged 86, died at the Columbia Hospital, Wilkinsburg, Sunday. He was born on the site of city home Marshalsea. He moved to Scott twp in early life and was justice of the peace for 20 years, being a Democrat. While he served as justice helped lay out he borough called Mansfield. Mr Nicholson also laid out Chartiers cemetery where he was buried. He was the last of a family of nine children. He built the first school house in that part of Scott township, now Upper Stain Clair township which still bears his name. He leavesa wodow one son, Albert W and one daughter Mrs John F McKibben of Wilkinsburg. SI 08-06-1908 Locusta? (1) Located near Crafton, Pa (2) Locusta - there is a Locust Street in Idlewood (Homestead) which is between Crafton and Carnegie. Iffly? (1) Iffly was a small shanty town sitting between Rennerdale and Greg's Station. (2) IFFLY, Allegheny County, Collier Township How to Get to Site of Iffly Go west from Carnegie on the Noblestown Road, says Rev. Allison, to an eighth of a mile beyond the Rennerdale School.There are some frame houses here and the main highway makes a sharp turn north. Straight ahead is an old, unpaved road going down southwesterly and across the Pan Handle Railroad and Robinson Run to join a more modern road northwest of Gregg Station, where once were the home of the Hays and Walker families. Near the foot of the hill at the bridge over Robinson Run, "were willows skirt the road and border both sides of the stream," is the site of what was Iffly. The Irish gave the settlement its name. Winterset? Remmington? (1) Remington Station was located on the Steubenville Pike between Moon Run and Campbell's Run Road. I believe it was just about where Church Hill Road intersects with Steubenville Pike. (2) There was also a village of Remington located somewhere around the present location of the Chartiers Country Club (off Baldwin Rd. and above Campbell's Run). This town was tied to the old mines in the area and has since vanished, not only from the map, but from existence. No trace exists. (3) "Remington Post Office" - the town was Summitville before it became Moon Run in the early 1890s.I'm not sure if it was connected with the Chartiers R.R. and mines that existed around the late 1850s or with the later mines (around present Thornberry). (4) Remington - There was a Remington some where in Robinson Township near Montour Creek as there once was train service from Ivanhoe (Groveton) to Remmington. There was also a Remington Station at Conway on the PFtW & C RR Burdine (1) Burdine was in Collier twp, along Thom's Run Road. Division St, Glendale (1) now known as Magazine Street Ext. Hazeltine (1) 4 miles from Carnegie Milton? Walbash Hill? Essen? (1) Essen is a community between Bridgeville and Beadling along Painter's Run. Esplen? (1) This is now the West End area of Pittsburgh and within the Pittsburgh City limits. (2)Esplen is on West Carson Street just beyond the Corliss Tunnel and before you reach McKees Rocks. (3) Esplen is on the Pittsburgh side of the mouth of Chartiers Creek at the Ohio River across the Creek from McKees Rocks Darlington? Hickman? (1) Collier Twp, around intersection of Steen Hollow and Thoms Run, southwest of Rennerdale. (2) HICKMAN, Allegheny County, Collier Township. On Thoms Run road between Beechmont and Federal Clifton? (1) It's in Upper St. Clair, around the intersection of Route 19 & McLaughlin Run Road where USC High School is. Before Clifton, it was called Sodom. Scully Springs? (1) Scully Springs - on the 1876 map of Chartiers Township directly west of Crafton Station in the big bend in Chartiers Creek is a 'Scully's Spring Plan'. It would be in the area of the old PRR Scully Yard. Hoilday's Cove Cem? Holiday's Cove is in Weirton, WV It's the location of an old presbyterian cemetery named Three Springs. * Idlewood/Carnegie Is the sight of the old Patterson Homestead 1827 Idlewood is between Crafton and Carnegie and was originally called Homestead. Bowerton, Pa? Now called Bower Hill Shirland? (1) Located near Imperial Shirland is in North Fayette Township on the Steubenville Pike just beyond the old Fort Pitt Inn or about 1 mile east of the intersection of Routes 22 and 30. (2) Was the Post Office in the area of the old 22/30 split before Imperial YWCA organized 11-13-1913 Carnegie Signal Item Palmersville? (1) That was Palmersville at the intersection of Churchhill Rd and the Pike, later known as Gayly. The area near the intersection of the Pike and Beaver Grade Rd. Fayetteville (1) was just beyond the old Fort Pitt Inn about where Scio Pottery used to be and close to that little strip mall where there was a State Liquor store. Hudson Hollow, Collier Twp The McClintic-Marshall Construction Co'c East Carnegie works have orders booked ahead to keep them busy for some time. The Panama Canal gates, etc. will be made at the Rankin Works.
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