Old 24th Ward

1885

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Old 24th Ward
  • Title
  • Old 24th Ward
  • Creator
  • Frederick T. Gretton
  • Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F24.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F24.I02
  • Description
  • Caption on the front of the photograph reads, “PVCRR - Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston railroad round house to lower right of picture. Is now the Penna railroad. Old Bessie railroad track has narrow gauge. ran along side of Penna track that went into the mill. Coal from J & L mine up 30th St hill was hauled over Bessie track.” The Monongahela Valley Railroad Company was incorporated on April 8th, 1867, to build a line through Birmingham and to construct a branch across the Monongahela River at Port Perry to the Pennsylvania Railroad near Turtle Creek Station. On February 4, 1870, the corporate title of this company was changed to the Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston Railway Company. On April 1, 1905, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company acquired the franchises, corporate property, rights and credits of the Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston Railway Company.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad.
    South Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    East Birmingham (Pa.)
  • Source
  • Frederick T. Gretton Photographs, 1857-1953, MSP 328, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Frederick T. Gretton Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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