The U.S. Army’s 308th Calvary trained on land that now houses O’Hara Community Park. The land, in a nine-parcel estate that totaled 1,923 acres, was later owned by U.S. Senator James Ross. A picnic area known as Ross Grove became Pittsburgh’s entertainment resort, utilized by the H.J. Heinz Company, among
Matt Rosenberg | Tribune-Review
O’Hara Community Park will get six story boards in spring 2021 that detail the township’s history.
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Educational signs to be erected this spring in O’Hara Community Park will deliver bits of the township’s history, tracing back to its origins when Seneca Indian Chief Guyasuta trekked through green valleys and tree-covered hills to settle nearby and serve as an advisor to George Washington.
A small committee of historians, elected officials and Native Americans are crafting six displays that they said will represent an accurate timeline of the township.