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  • Winter Homes
    [[File:Winter homes.jpg]] Homes Built
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  • Main Page
    ...l as [[Carrick High School]]. Along with well-kept modest and large grand homes, the neighborhood boasts of numerous parklet playgrounds, the Carnegie Libr ...ing with conservation organizations, community groups worked to weatherize homes and businesses, plant trees and flowers, and add elements of “green build
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  • Glossary of Terms
    ...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 li
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  • Pittsburg Leader 1904
    ...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 foun
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  • Brownsville Road
    ...he road still greet the eye. Some of the old residents still linger in the homes of their childhood. Picnics, hay rides, and sleighing parties still enliven
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  • Hornaday Road
    Also found this map and its information was related to all of the homes and owners in the area. ...e flat top area which has been sub-divided since then, into forty lots (39 homes and currently named Zion Church) with those addresses from 95 to 163. This
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  • PITTSBURGH AND CASTLE SHANNON RAILROAD
    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
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  • Pittsburgh Leader 1904
    ...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
    17 KB (2,947 words) - 19:23, 9 March 2012
  • The Origin of the Carrick Overbrook Historical Society by Joe Krynock
    ...he block party, other neighbors mentioned historic information about their homes, or rumored information of our Hornaday Road neighborhood. Even with these And then we found this map and its information was related to all of the homes and owners in the area which raised more questions for us.
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  • Harriet Duff Phillips
    As I visited the many historic places and homes of great American Literati I became aware of the lack of such places in Pit ...er the Nation. Parallel with this problem was that of women leaving their homes and families for remunerative work. The whole idea of family life in Ameri
    130 KB (23,329 words) - 11:36, 20 April 2017
  • Concord Elementary School
    ...f and Bobby Costello were among my many classmates who came from very poor homes. Mother constantly reminded me to treat them all with great kindness and th
    31 KB (5,224 words) - 10:33, 25 November 2010
  • Carrick Mural
    The Bird House: The bird house resembles of many of our homes, and represents Bird Day, a national holiday created in the early 1900s and
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  • CARRICK HISTORY
    == Buildings and Homes == == [[Homes]] ==
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  • Bird Day
    ...ut them up, and to watch and defend the birds when they came to make their homes with them. And he found that no more faithful sentinel ever stood on guard ...tantly enthusiastic in the protection of birds, and in providing them with homes and food. As a
    13 KB (2,290 words) - 13:59, 3 April 2012
  • “Cool Community”
    25 WHEREAS, Two hundred homes will receive free energy surveys, 26 and 100 of those homes will receive free weatherization through
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  • Fairhaven
    ...ver they went at that time. Carbon Oil lamps and candles were used in the homes for light. ...in Fairhaven in 1893. Watchmen were posted day and night around afflicted homes. Dr. Kirk and his horsemen erected a tent in the center of Baldwin and liv
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  • Overbrook
    ...ver they went at that time. Carbon Oil lamps and candles were used in the homes for light. ...in Fairhaven in 1893. Watchmen were posted day and night around afflicted homes. Dr. Kirk and his horsemen erected a tent in the center of Baldwin and liv
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  • The Hornaday Road Report
    ...we talked more other neighbors mentioned historic information about their homes and information of our Hornaday Road neighborhood. Even with these scattere And then we found this map and its information was related to all of the homes and owners in the area which raised more questions for us.
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  • Hays, Milton D.
    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 (3,889 words) - 19:18, 21 July 2008
  • Milton D. Hays
    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 (3,889 words) - 19:17, 21 July 2008
  • Concord Presbyterian Church
    ...oneer settlers were no longer afraid to travel far afield and to establish homes far away from the protection of the Fort.
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  • Carrick Centurions
    ...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.
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  • Mothers' Club of Carrick
    ...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
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  • Southside iron, steel and glass and its connections to Carrick and Overbrook history.
    ...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
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  • Articles about Carrick
    ...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
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  • Ghost Stories
    ...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
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  • Milton Hays
    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
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  • Phillips Properties
    ...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
  • Wigman House
    ...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."
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  • South Side Iron, Steel and Glass and the connection to Carrick and Overbrook
    ...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
  • Coal Mine Maps
    ...asements. This area was also known as [[Spiketown]] since many of the old homes were built using the mining spikes of the mines. ==
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  • Spiketown
    ...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
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  • Historical Status Article
    [[Image:Historical homes.jpg]]
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  • Coal mines
    == 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
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  • Fairhaven United Methodist Church
    ..., later, permanent cottages were built, several of which are still used as homes in 2010.
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  • Pittsburgh Register of Historical Places - Carrick
    [[Image:Historical homes.jpg]]
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  • Advent Historic Church Walk
    ...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.
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  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
    ...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.
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  • Colteryahn's Dairy
    ...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
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  • Alois Winter
    ...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
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  • Winter Homes
    [[File:Winter homes.jpg]] Homes Built
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