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PPL (People) was the brainchild of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, a Pittsburgh regional planning association launched in 1944 to rebuild and clean up the notorious Smokey City. The Allegheny Conference hired Roy Stryker in 1950 to record the city before its famous urban renewal, dubbed Renaissance I, and to shoot positive ...
Allegheny City was a municipality that existed in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 1788 until it was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907. It was located north across the Allegheny River from downtown Pittsburgh, with its southwest border formed by the Ohio River, and is known today as the North Side.
Allegheny City Electric Light Plant—1895 building 1895 David Hunter Jr., engineer: 822 Riversea Road Central Northside 2012 Allegheny Country Club 1902 William Ross Proctor Country Club Road Sewickley Heights 2003 Allegheny County Airport: 1931, 1936 Stanley L. Roush and Henry Hornbostel
In 1880, Allegheny was incorporated as a city. The City of Allegheny was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907, and became known as the North Side. Historians [ who? ] claim that the Felix Brunot mansion on Stockton Avenue ( Allegheny Center ) was once a station on the Underground Railroad , where fugitive slaves from the South stopped for food and ...
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted. There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Scranton of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.
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From the 19th century to 1907, Allegheny Center was thus the hub of downtown Allegheny City. The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh (consisting of the old Allegheny Post Office and Buhl Planetarium joined by a 2006 addition) is located within it, as is the old Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny (now the New Hazlett Theater and the Children's ...
Don Sherwood, U.S. Representative (R-PA)—Tunkhannock; D. Brooks Smith, federal judge on Court of Appeals—Altoona; Carl Andrew Spaatz, WWII general and first Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force—Boyertown; Arlen Specter, U.S. Senator (R-PA)—Philadelphia; William Cameron Sproul, 27th Governor of Pennsylvania—Lancaster County