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  • ...inued to play the piano or accordion at senior citizen and assisted living homes, sometimes twice a week, until age 99. She also loved to write poetry.
    8 KB (1,311 words) - 09:56, 11 July 2014
  • ...it outlines the distant ridge an silhouettes the steepled church and cozy homes against the rosy sky. Nor are the sunsets moor wonderful in any other place Brave settlers began to build substantial homes of hewn logs about 1790. Until a few years ago three or four of these stil
    43 KB (7,473 words) - 20:44, 17 December 2012
  • ...lass plate companies increased from 1763 so did the need for employees and homes for them. Carrick itself had the Englert glass factory, and our area was ca
    10 KB (1,625 words) - 07:46, 18 January 2009
  • ...fth and Highland avenues. Some of the grounds surrounding the best Carrick homes are beautiful are artistic in flowers, shrubbery, greenhouses and asphalt w ...arket gardens were to be seen now there are thousands of neat, substantial homes and faultlessly paved streets. Almost every city convenience is to be found
    21 KB (3,704 words) - 17:10, 4 December 2009
  • ...grounds? How many miners have been lost in the numerous caverns under our homes; do they come out on All Hallows' Eve? Do Indians still hauntingly hunt de ...death. Photographers often came around towns and took pictures in peoples homes. These sessions were not impromptu. People dressed up and posed for the pho
    53 KB (9,614 words) - 09:40, 31 October 2017
  • As the Camp Meeting grounds, the Zoological Gardens and the building of homes expanded, the saw mills in and around Fairhaven flourished. Among the thou
    22 KB (3,910 words) - 18:43, 13 August 2011
  • ...on Fourth Street. The house probably was a log building since most of the homes at that time were of log construction. ...Provost, and they moved to 31 Hazel Street nearby. (See The Locations of Homes and Properties Section). Allegheny County sued John Phillips and his two p
    58 KB (9,636 words) - 18:29, 3 January 2009
  • ...hout the staining to produce faux stained wood as common in less expensive homes of the time. The large chain hung window/door entrance to the turret balcon ...e. The nomination states that it is "the last remaining example of several homes of the wealthy South Side gentry who lived in Carrick."
    39 KB (6,355 words) - 16:31, 26 January 2013
  • ...ass plate companies increased from 1763' so did the need for employees and homes for them. Carrick itself had the Englert glass factory, and our area was ca
    6 KB (933 words) - 19:29, 6 January 2009
  • ...asements. This area was also known as [[Spiketown]] since many of the old homes were built using the mining spikes of the mines. ==
    1 KB (237 words) - 15:23, 22 April 2011
  • ...to be called Spiketown because the miners used mine spikes to build their homes. Also said to be named after the Speiker Family whose large family also liv
    325 B (54 words) - 21:22, 19 February 2009
  • [[Image:Historical homes.jpg]]
    148 B (19 words) - 18:26, 18 October 2010
  • == This is a section for a collection of what is under our homes in the Carrick area. The information in these articles were submitted by ou
    934 B (99 words) - 21:39, 22 November 2011
  • ..., later, permanent cottages were built, several of which are still used as homes in 2010.
    34 KB (5,467 words) - 13:10, 16 November 2011
  • [[Image:Historical homes.jpg]]
    2 KB (221 words) - 18:25, 18 October 2010
  • ...o the institution taking their time to cordially invite us all into their "homes." I am sure many will accept your invitations to be part of your celebratio ...he next 37 years of his pastorate. He was gregarious, visited most of the homes in the area, encountered people in public places and the congregation grew.
    45 KB (7,338 words) - 20:18, 26 December 2011
  • ...he next 37 years of his pastorate. He was gregarious, visited most of the homes in the area, encountered people in public places and the congregation grew.
    5 KB (740 words) - 20:59, 26 December 2011
  • ...ded to selling fresh milk to retail markets while continuing to deliver to homes throughout the area. ...t out of a storefront beside the Carrick plant and delivering it to nearby homes. But that world disappeared as refrigeration allowed suppliers to take thei
    14 KB (2,235 words) - 06:50, 24 September 2013
  • ...rer. They continued to live in close proximity to one another, with their homes being located at 2225, 2226, and 2227 Jane Street on the Pittsburgh Southsi
    11 KB (1,745 words) - 19:50, 31 May 2015
  • [[File:Winter homes.jpg]] Homes Built
    10 KB (1,646 words) - 11:25, 20 October 2017

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