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Showing posts with label 1920's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1920's. Show all posts
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Meadville's Other Major College

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The Unitarian College, 1908 From the mid 1800’s up through the early 1900’s Meadville had not just one college in the city, but two-- ...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Healing and Luxury: A History of the Saegertown Inn

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Front view of the Saegertown Inn with French Creek along left side. With the overwhelming interest in photographs of the Saegertown Inn...
Sunday, July 3, 2016

Revisiting Oakwood Park

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Oakwood Park, Meadville PA In the late 1890’s, after acquiring a parcel of approximately 35 acres, the Meadville Traction Company estab...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

Mapping History: How Chasing Sanborn's Show What Once Existed

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The Sanborn Map Company  Those interested in the past often obsess over the "when" of things. The first person settled in 182...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

How the Trolley Arrived at Conneaut Lake Park

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Allegheny students wait at the Exposition Park trolley station - 1913 O n May 30, 1906, the Meadville and Conneaut Lake Traction (M...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

How Crawford County Forever Changed Women's Undergarments

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Lady Mary Crawley's corset in an early episode Change stands prominent as the obvious theme depicted in TV’s historical drama, Downto...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Alice Bentley: Crawford County's Champion for Women's Rights in the Downton Abbey Era

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A mong the many themes centered around the changing times in the popular PBS television series, Downton Abbey , women's growing indepe...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Crawford County Estates in the Downton Abbey Era

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Baldwin Reynolds Home & Estate The "Downton" Era (1910s and 1920s) was a time or expansion of ideas, but for a tightening...