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“The Roof Garden Motel” – Somerset, PA (circa 1944)

May 22, 2025 No Comments

In 1940, the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened between Irwin, PA (in Westmoreland County outside Pittsburgh) and Carlisle, PA in south-central Pennsylvania. (Extensions to the Ohio border

Chester Did Not Have a Nice Christmas – Hooversville, PA (1911)

May 11, 2024 No Comments

Clinton Naugle lived in Hooversville, a small borough of Somerset County in southwest Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooversville,_Pennsylvania In January of 1911, Clinton received a postcard from Chester.

Wear Out Your Welcome – Landstreet, PA (1913)

February 12, 2024 No Comments

Miss Nellie Lehman lived in Landstreet, a very small community that is no longer organized. Landstreet was located in the mountainous area of Somerset County