Pittsburgh’s Lost Chinatown Finally Gets Its Historical Marker
Other new state historical markers in this area will pay tribute to Andy Warhol, Earl “Fatha” Hines and Stan Musial.
March 17, 2021
A GROUP OF CHINESE AMERICANS PLAYING TRADITIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN PITTSBURGH’S CHINATOWN, 1912
In the late 1800s, the area between Second and Third avenues and Ross and Grant streets Downtown was the thriving heart of Pittsburgh’s Chinatown but you wouldn’t know it these days.
By the 1920s and ’30s, the newly built Boulevard of the Allies jutted through Chinatown, disrupting the neighborhood. The number of inhabitants dwindled, shops vanished and Chinatown became history.
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Andy Warhol (Susan Greenwood / Liaison Agency Images via Getty Images)
PITTSBURGH, PA Eclectic artist and Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol is among the people, places and books getting 23 new state historical markers from the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. The new markers, blue signs with gold lettering, will be added to roads throughout the state.
Born Andrew Warhola in 1928,the pop artist still enjoys worldwide recognition for his unique style of combining fine art with commercial images. He died in 1987.
Since 1946 the commission s historical markers have chronicled the people, places and events that have affected the lives of Pennsylvanians over the centuries. The signs feature subjects such as Native Americans and early settlers, government and politics, athletes, entertainers,
Pennsylvania town that inspired the song ‘Winter Wonderland’ gets historical marker
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
Winter in Honesdale s Central Park was the inspiration for the Christmas classic, Winter Wonderland. (File photo)
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Pennsylvania lyricist Richard Smith was inspired by winter scenes in his hometown of Honesdale, Wayne County, in 1934, when he wrote the lyrics to the song “Winter Wonderland,” which has become a Christmas classic recorded again and again by everyone from Perry Como to Barry Manilow to The Eurythmics. Basically, almost anyone who has ever recorded a Christmas album has done “Winter Wonderland.”
Smith wrote the words while convalescing in a tuberculosis sanatorium outside Scranton and was inspired by the winter scenes he observed out his window. He died of the disease on his 34th birthday, Sept. 29, 1935.
Photo courtesy of Larry Boehm
Siberian Iron Works in Leechburg was constructed in 1872. This photograph of the mill office was taken circa 1905.
Photo courtesy of Larry Boehm
Siberian Iron Works in Leechburg was constructed in 1872. Larry Boehm, a local historian, estimates this photograph was taken in the 1920s.
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A site in Leechburg is one of 23 across the state receiving new historical markers from the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission.
The site of the former Siberian Iron Works will soon receive the familiar blue sign with gold lettering that marks 2,300 historical sites across Pennsylvania.
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