The bridge was designed by Albert Lucius and built by McClintic-Marshall Company of Pittsburgh between March 1908 and May 1910 for the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. The bridge is notable in that the railroad proceeded with the cantilever design despite the collapse of the Quebec cantilever bridge during construction in 1907. The Beaver bridge …
DESCRIPTION: “Growing out of a joint effort between Robert Morris and Moon Township to get a local neighborhood included on the National Register of Historic Places, the Oral History Center facilitates research into recent American history, allows students to get involved in oral interviews, and serves as a repository of archival materials. The Center is …
DESCRIPTION: “On episode 11 of the Little Beaver Historical Society Podcast, we talk with Beaver County historian Charles Townsend about his family’s early abolitionist activism and the Underground Railroad in Beaver County.” Charles Townsend III is a native of Beaver County, and one of its most ardent historians. In 1999, he was one of the …
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DESCRIPTION: “Veteran Voices: The Oral History Podcast – Video Short. It was a chance encounter between two strangers who learned that they shared a remarkable story. Vietnam War veterans George Haught of Monaca and John Clark of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania served in the same Marine unit in 1967, but neither knew each other. John left the …
DESCRIPTION: “Join us as we travel in the footsteps of Beaver County’s role in the Underground Railroad era.” SEE ALSO: Underground Railroad Safe Houses in Beaver County RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY The Listening Library of Beaver County (LLBC) is curated by The Social Voice Project. It is a publicly and privately sourced …
DESCRIPTION: “This one-hour documentary is beautifully focused on the role of African-American laborers throughout the history of the steel industry. It is suffused with the filmmaker’s passion for revealing what had been deliberately overlooked: that black laborers most often had the grittiest, most dangerous jobs in the mines and the mills, and they never rose …
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DESCRIPTION: Oral History Interviews: Black Steelworkers in Aliquippa – James Sharply, Charles E. Gilbert, James Byld, James Downing Jr, and Henry Gipson SEE ALSO: Struggles In Steel – A Story of African-American Steelworkers a film by Tony Buba and Raymond Henderson Struggles In Steel – 20 Years Later, Still Struggling Sample RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: …
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DESCRIPTION: “Rochester Boxing trainer met Boston bombing suspect.” SEE ALSO: RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY The Listening Library of Beaver County (LLBC) is curated by The Social Voice Project. It is a publicly and privately sourced audio/visual archive of voices and stories related to Beaver County, Pennsylvania and surrounding region. Disclaimer: LLBC is …
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