Just wanted to let you all know about the Monongahela Area Christmas light up celebration to be held on Friday, November 16th, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Most local businesses will be hosting open houses and offering treats and discounts. Here’s a list of activities for the evening: The Ringgold High School Marching... Continue Reading →
A Little More History Of The Liggett Spring And Axle Company
From the July 31, 1902 edition of Iron Age The Liggett Spring and Axle Company, manufacturers of high-grade carriage and wagons springs and axles, whose plant is now located in Allegheny, Pennsylvania are going ahead rapidly with their plans for building a new works near Monongahela City. The company have secured at this place at tract... Continue Reading →
Beginnings Of The Old Combustion Engineering Plant, Monongahela PA.
What we know as the old Combustion Engineering (C.E.) plant started out as The Coshocton Iron Works. Here's an entry from Iron Age, Volume 7o, 1902: Application for a Pennsylvania charter will be made August, 21 by the Coshocton Iron Company, operating a foundry at Coshocton, Ohio, which have become allied with the Liggett Spring... Continue Reading →
Oops!
I just found an error in my virtual scavenger hunt post of a few days ago. The image link took you to the general Gigapan.org site but not directly to the Gigapan image I created. Sorry about that. Here is a corrected direct link to the image: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/44587/ There are a few items yet to... Continue Reading →
1909 Monongahela Panorama Virtual Scavenger Hunt
Have you ever heard of a Gigapan? It is a photograph comprised of sometimes hundreds of small snapshots, all stitched together by computer software to create one incredibly detailed high resolution image. When the image is uploaded to Gigapan.org you can view it and keep on zooming and zooming to see all kinds of interesting... Continue Reading →
