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Loudwater is a village in the parish of Chepping Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the valley to the east of High Wycombe , on the A40 London Road. History
The post office was named Wycombe to prevent confusion with the post office in Wingohocken Pa. The Lingohocken Fire Company, which is located on the edge of town, retains this older name. The New Hope Railroad still owns the rail line through the town, and having finished restoring the former Reading Company station building in 2011, intends to ...
Homewood was founded in 1832 by Judge William Wilkins. [4] The earliest black residents moved into the sparsely-populated area in the aftermath of the Civil War. [5] Homewood was annexed by the city of Pittsburgh on December 1, 1884 [4] and held in those years mainly estates for the wealthy, being the Pittsburgh residence of industrialists Andrew Carnegie and Thomas M. Carnegie until the late ...
Westinghouse High School served a diverse population of middle- and working-class individuals who lived in the Homewood neighborhood. [9] To relieve crowding at Peabody High School, the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education opened two new East End high schools in 1912, using Woolslair Elementary in Bloomfield and Baxter Elementary in Homewood as temporary locations while permanent buildings ...
Edgewood Post Card Mural, located at Signs N' At, Edgewood Towne Centre. Edgewood was incorporated on December 1, 1888. [1] Its historic landmarks include the Edgewood Borough Building where the police and fire service are also housed; the First Presbyterian Church of Edgewood; the Edgewood Community House which is home to both CC Mellor Memorial Library and the Edgewood Club; Memorial Park ...
The City of Pittsburgh annexed an additional area of land that is now the city's Overbrook neighborhood. Today, only 400 of the township's original 10,550 acres (42.7 km 2 ) remain. Historians calculate that if Baldwin Township had never been divided, it would now be the second largest community in Allegheny County, with a population of over ...
The eastern edge of the neighborhood, north of Regent Square and east of Frick Park, comprises the neighborhood of Park Place. [5] The Shady Side Academy Junior School sits here, as does Environmental Charter School, a Pittsburgh Public School that operates as a charter school in the building originally known as Park Place School.
Mount Oliver is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population was 3,394 at the 2020 census. [4] It is a largely residential area situated atop a crest about 3 miles (5 km) west of the Monongahela River.