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The Ardmore Drive-In operated from 1959 to 1976; it was then torn down and was replaced with a shopping center. During the 1980s the shopping center's parking lot hosted a Sunday flea market and the Braddock Hills Days Festival. Like many Western Pennsylvania communities, Braddock Hills was a coal town.
The Braddock Carnegie Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania, is the first Carnegie Library in the United States. As such, the library was named a National Historic Landmark in 2012, [3] [4] following its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, [1] and is on the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation's List of Historic ...
Braddock's Battlefield History Center is a small American museum and visitors center on the site of the Battle of the Monongahela of July 9, 1755. It features a collection of art, documents, and artifacts about the Braddock Expedition and the French and Indian War as it unfolded at the Forks of the Ohio .
Location of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Allegheny County.. This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
Location of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Braddock's Field. Braddock is named for General Edward Braddock (1695–1755), commander of American colonial forces at the start of the French and Indian War. [5] The Braddock Expedition to capture Fort Duquesne (modern day Pittsburgh) from the French led to the British general's own fatal wounding and a sound defeat of his troops after crossing the Monongahela River on July 9, 1755.
The History Center aims to "rewrite the narrative" by truthfully exploring how the North Carolina Homefront reacted to and participated in the Civil War with an $87 million History Center built on ...
It was the sixth library commissioned by Carnegie in the U.S. and the seventh to open. 1 Completed in November 1898, it is the third oldest Carnegie library in continuous operation in its original structure in the U.S. after the Main Branch and Lawrenceville Branch of Pittsburgh. 2 The library is an independent entity; it is not a "branch" of ...