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Construction of the Etna-Sharpsburg Bypass

1956

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Construction of the Etna-Sharpsburg Bypass
  • Title
  • Construction of the Etna-Sharpsburg Bypass
  • Creator
  • Pennsylvania State Highway Department
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B010.F21.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B010.F21.I03
  • Description
  • In 1910 a Pittsburgh transportation plan recommended widening and paving the street from the North Side through Millvale, Etna, Sharpsburg, and Aspinwall. The Etna-Sharpsburg Bypass was constructed by Latrobe Road Construction, Inc. of Latrobe Pennsylvania. More than 150 men, including engineers and laborers worked on this project. Construction began in 1956 and was completed on October 22, 1958.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Etna-Sharpsburg Bypass (Pa.)
    Sharpsburg (Pa.)
    Pennsylvania Route 28.
    Highway construction--Pennsylvania--Sharpsburg.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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