By Nancy Knisley
On May 23, 1904, the Real Estate Trust Company, agent for American Bridge, took out a full page ad in The Pittsburg Press* offering a free train excursion to see "the grand spectacle of a rising smokeless manufacturing city."
On May 23, 1904, the Real Estate Trust Company, agent for American Bridge, took out a full page ad in The Pittsburg Press* offering a free train excursion to see "the grand spectacle of a rising smokeless manufacturing city."
By May, 1904, the American Bridge Company office had been built, and the mill was partially finished and operating. Now the company needed people and businesses to invest and build in "The Marvel City", on the land the company now owned, and so they targeted, as the ad said, "everybody bent on making money."
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Nancy Bohinsky Knisley grew up in Ambridge in the 1950s and 1960s. She is the author of Ambridge Memories, a blog dedicated to local history from 1950 to 1970. Visit ambridgememories.blogspot.com for more.
Click here to read the complete article.
Nancy Bohinsky Knisley grew up in Ambridge in the 1950s and 1960s. She is the author of Ambridge Memories, a blog dedicated to local history from 1950 to 1970. Visit ambridgememories.blogspot.com for more.
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