Clarence F. Underwood - 1905 |
Sunday, April 16, 2017
The World War 1 Artwork of Clarence Underwood
Labels:
1900's,
1910's,
Allegheny College,
Little Known Facts,
Local Historical Figures,
Meadville,
The Great War
Location:
Meadville, PA 16335, USA
Sunday, March 12, 2017
John Heisman - Football Legend from Titusville
Coach John Heisman (center) with his 1909 Georgia Tech team. |
Labels:
1880's,
1890's,
1900's,
1910's,
Little Known Facts,
Local Historical Figures,
Sports History,
The Oil Boom,
Titusville
Location:
Titusville, PA 16354, USA
Sunday, March 5, 2017
The Magnificent McHenry House Part 2 - Departures and Demises
A & GW Depot with McHenry House to the left in 1869 |
Labels:
1860's,
1870's,
1880's,
Civil War,
Little Known Facts,
Local Historical Figures,
Local Industry,
Meadville,
The Oil Boom
Location:
Meadville, PA 16335, USA
Sunday, February 26, 2017
The Magnificent McHenry House Part 1: A City Arrives
A crowd gathered to greet one of the inaugural A & GW trains. Note the Depot in the background. |
The McHenry House was a premier dining hall and hotel, named in honor of James McHenry, Esquire, the London financial agent sent in 1859 to ensure the successful construction of the Atlantic and Great Western (A & GW) Railroad. McHenry couldn’t have imagined the challenges that awaited him, but even so, he managed to secure needed resources, albeit controversially, despite labor shortages, political infighting, and the Civil War.
Location:
Meadville, PA 16335, USA
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Famous Allegheny - Big Names from a Small School
Bentley Hall, Allegheny College |
Nestled away at the top of the hill overlooking Meadville, Pennsylvania is Allegheny College which holds the title of 32nd oldest in the United States, having just celebrated it’s 200th birthday in 2015. The college came into being when Timothy Alden, a Harvard graduate, traveled to Meadville with hopes of founding an institution of higher education. He, along with other gentlemen of the town, took on the momentous effort of securing the school’s first trustees and petitioning the state for a charter for their institution. Alden would become the first president, as well as professor of Oriental Languages and Ecclesiastical History. The first freshman class was admitted on July 4, 1816, although at this point the college only really existed in name, as there was no set building for another four years. Bentley Hall, the school’s oldest and most iconic building, was not built until 1820. By this time, a number of major contributions had been made to the school allowing the project to be possible, including a generous land grant by Samuel Lord Esq. (part of the original estate connected to the Baldwin-Reynolds House Museum). From these humble beginnings came a school that soon flourished and served to educate a number famous faces from the last two centuries.
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