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Focusing on the lives of any person or family who has lived in Little Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania at anytime throughout history to recent times, through data and family stories.



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 Crossroads SignsINTRODUCTION TO TOWNS, BOROUGHS
                                              and VILLAGES IN WASHINGTON COUNTY

Genealogy (often misspelled geneology) and family history research in Little Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania from 1700 to present.  

 

            I decided to include a section about towns in Washington County because, other than Crumrine, there is little to be found on the internet about the localities in the county.  There is no place on the WWW with descriptions of all - or most - of the towns.

 

            A little history will be included, but because the focus of this website is "life in..", my focus with the Town-Talk write ups is to give readers an overview of what the towns are like, past and present.   In the past, so many of these places were hustling and very populated, but with losses of industry many of the towns have fairly shrunk in population and decreased activity.  However, for anyone with an interest in Washington County, these all are still "our towns."  

 

           These pages will be expanded during the next months and more towns will have write-ups.  

If you would like to do a write-up for a town, email me! 

If you want to submit a picture of a town, email me!

(You will receive credit for any submissions.)

 

 

Washington PA Uptown Landmarks -1 - Personal Perspectives

Uptown Landmarks -2

City Bus and G.G.& C. Bus Co. - Stories

Jefferson Ave to Main St. - and Christmas Time 

Washington Hospital and School of Nursing - Personal Perspectives - coming soon

 

GHOST TOWNS

NEW! Stringtown: Another 'Ghost' of Civil War Mining Days in Monon. Valley District

 


Cities, boroughs, villages....maps and zip codes...

with links to "Town-Talk" pages and scans if any.

Please keep in mind many of these places are tiny boroughs so there might not be much to write.

Allenport -Map (17066)
Amity -Map (15311)
Town-Talk about Amity PA Atlasburg -Map (15004)
Avella -Map (15312)
Beallsville-Map (15313)
Town-Talk about Beallsville
Scans concerning Beallsville
The National Hotel -by Kathy Neuhardt Scott 
Tollhouses
Bentleyville -Map (15314)
Town-Talk about Bentleyville.
Town-Talk about Bentleyville - page 2 
Bentleyville, PA page 3  
Bentleyville, PA page 4 - Camp Pic
Scans concerning Bentleyville.
Bulger -Map (15019)
Town-Talk about Bulger PA Burgettstown -Map (15021)
Town-Talk about Burgettstown
Scans concerning Burgettstown
Burgett Cemetery - Interment.Net
California
- Map (15419)
California, Pa - page 1
California, Pa - page 2
California, Pa - page 3-Wyona S. Coleman
Canonsburg -Map (15317)
Town-Talk about Canonsburg
Cecil -Map (15321)
Charleroi -Map (15022)
Town-Talk about Charleroi
Scans concerning Charleroi
Claysville -Map (15323)
Coal Center -Map (15423)
Town-Talk about Coal Center.
Scans concerning Coal Center.
Cokeburg -Map (15324)
Town-Talk about Cokeburg.
Scans concerning Cokeburg
Daisytown - Map ? (15427) 
Town-Talk about Daisytown
Denbo -Map (15429)
Town-Talk About Donora
Donora -Map (15033) 
Dunlevy -Map (15432) 
Eighty Four -Map (15330)
Elco -Map (15434)
Eldersville -Map (15036)
Ellsworth -Map (15331)
Town-Talk about Ellsworth
Pictures/Scans concerning Ellsworth
Elrama -Map (15038)
Finleyville -Map (15332)
Fredericktown -Map (15333)
Gastonville -Map (15336)
Hendersonville - Map (15339)
Hickory -Map (15340)
Houston -Map (15342)
Town-Talk about Houston
Joffre -Map (15053)
Langeloth -Map (15054)
Lawrence -Map (15055)
Marianna -Map (15345)
Town-Talk about Marianna.
Articles - Marianna Mine Disaster.
McDonald -Map (15057)
Town-Talk about McDonald.
Articles - McDonald PA Veterans.
Articles - McDonald and area--on the genealogy website
McMurray -Map (15317)
Town-Talk about McMurray
Scans concerning Monongahela
Meadowlands -Map (15347)
Midway -Map (15060)
Millsboro -Map (15348)
Monongahela -Map (15063)
Town-Talk about Monongahela
Scans concerning Monongahela
Muse -Map  (15350)
New Eagle - Map (15067)
Paris -Map (15021)
Peters Township 
Prosperity -Map (15329)
Richeyville -Map (15358)
Roscoe -Map (15477) 
Scenery Hill -Map (15360)
Town-Talk about Scenery Hill
Scans concerning Scenery Hill
Slovan  -Map (15370)
Southview  -Map (15361)
Stockdale -Map (15483)
Strabane (Township)-Map (15363)
Ten Mile -Map (15345)
Taylorstown -Map (15365)
Van Voorhis -Map (15366)
Venetia -Map (15367)
Vestaburg -Map (15368)
East Washington PA -Map (15301)
Town-Talk about East Washington Washington -Map (15301)
Town-Talk about Washington
Uptown Landmarks -1 by Judith Florian
Uptown Landmarks -2 by Judith Florian Scans concerning Washington

West Alexander -Map (15376)
West Finley -Map (15377)
Town-Talk about West Finley PA
St Francis of Assisi R.C. Church
Brennan Family
Carnahan Family
West Newton
West Middletown -Map (15379)
Westland -Map (15378)

See Cemeteries at PAGenWeb for Washington PA 

 

 

The Wikipedia Encyclopedia online lists these cities, towns and boroughs along the Monongahela River.  

Allenport, Pennsylvania 
Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania 
Braddock, Pennsylvania 
Brownsville, Pennsylvania 
California, Washington Co., Pennsylvania 
Charleroi, Washington Co., Pennsylvania  - see above list
Clairton, Pennsylvania 
Coal Center, Washington Co., Pennsylvania 
Donora, Washington Co., Pennsylvania 
Dravosburg, Pennsylvania 
Dunlevy, Pennsylvania 
Duquesne, Pennsylvania 
Elco, Washington Co., Pennsylvania 
Elizabeth, Pennsylvania 
Fairmont, West Virginia 
Fayette City, Pennsylvania 
Fredericktown-Millsboro, Pennsylvania 
Glassport, Pennsylvania 
Granville, West Virginia 
Greensboro, Pennsylvania 
Hiller, Pennsylvania 
Homestead, Pennsylvania 
McKeesport, Pennsylvania 
Monessen, Pennsylvania 
Monongahela, Washington Co., Pennsylvania 
Morgantown, West Virginia 
Munhall, Pennsylvania 
Nemacolin, Pennsylvania 
New Eagle, Pennsylvania 
Newell, Pennsylvania 
North Braddock, Pennsylvania 
North Charleroi, Washington Co., Pennsylvania 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
Point Marion, Pennsylvania 
Port Vue, Pennsylvania 
Rankin, Pennsylvania 
* Rivesville, West Virginia 
Roscoe, Washington Co., Pennsylvania 
Speers, Washington Co., Pennsylvania 
Star City, West Virginia 
Stockdale, Pennsylvania 
West Brownsville, Washington Co., Pennsylvania 
West Elizabeth, Pennsylvania 
West Mifflin, Pennsylvania 
Westover, West Virginia 
Whitaker, Pennsylvania 

 

 

Below are links that will help you learn more about Washington County Pennsylvania, the Church of the Brethren, and families of Washington County.

 

Church of the Brethren / German Baptist Brethren History:
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National and District Links

 

Ten Mile Church of the Brethren (Marianna) and South Pigeon Creek Dunkard (north end of the congregation), Washington Co., PA
Ten Mile COB (picture of original church) South Pigeon Creek Dunkard Church (photo)
Directions to Ten Mile COB with Map

Directions to South Pigeon Creek Cemetery/Lot with Map  (tap the bar for East to move the map slightly to see Letherman Bridge Road; the Cemetery is a little over 2 miles down this road)

Raymond Bell Anthology - Ten Mile Church of the Brethren   German Baptists adopted the official name of The Church of the Brethren in the early 1900s.  See Families of Ten Mile Church of the Brethren

            

          TEN MILE AREA
Map: Washington to Scenery Hill
(Ten Mile area lies closer to Scenery Hill)
Ten Mile Area Landmarks:
Ten Mile Watershed DEP (Department of Environmental Protection)  Century Inn

         

National Road - National Pike

 

Tools You Can Use!

Submit Your Surnames - coming in 2006

Cemetery Precautions - Avoiding Poison Ivy/Poison Oak

Genealogy Humor

The ancestry of the LANE family were German Baptists, who adopted the official name of The Church of the Brethren in the early 1900s.  See Families of Ten Mile Church of the Brethren

 

My LANES

LANE FAMILY of MD and PA  
Lane Book One - Index
(Lane Family History: Descendants of John Lane, Sr., by Ruth Lane McGary and Judith Ann Florian, 1990 (Includes 1794-1990.)
Daniel and Anna England Lane, and family (photo)

Photo of elderly Anna England Lane

Lane Book Two - Index - coming '06   

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Washington Co., PA Area newspapers - other families - Look here for your families!

McDonald PA Area Newspapers - other families - Look here for your families!

 

 

 

EXTERNAL LINKS
NOTE: ALL external websites pop up in a separate window.

PA Municipalities (gives links)

city-data.com has some very striking USGS Maps of localities.

PA Counties and links to government websites

PA Towns and Villages listing.

Zip Codes of any City in PA (plus more on the site)

Link to MAPS by Township

USGS MAPS

 

Historical & Genealogical Societies in PA - Directory

Washington County Township MAP 

Churches List (Note: The website covers PA localities. The area code for Washington County PA is 724)

 

TOWN MAPS

 

There are several Washington County web sites:

Carol Mounts has "Washington PA Nostalgia" at URL
http://freepages.school-alumni.rootsweb.com/~ebgschol/

Judith Florian has "Washington County Genealogy Project" at URL
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/

Georgeann Malowney has "Washington County Genealogy & History in Pennsylvania " at URL
www.chartiers.com

 

A nice website to visit later is Rockdoctor's Virtual Guide to Southwestern PA   (Opens in New Window.)  It's a flash site, and takes a bit of time to load.  Has pictures, but many of the pages link to external websites.  Has worksheets for use in the classroom.

 


My LANE FAMILY in MD and Washington Co., PA.

Lane Family History: Descendants of John Lane, Sr.
by Ruth Lane McGary and Judith Ann Florian, (Includes 1794-1990.)
View the All-Name Index of this book.
Contact webmaster about this book.

The ancestry of the LANE family were German Baptists,
who adopted the official name of The Church of the Brethren in the early 1900s.

My branch of the LANE family:
Daniel and Anna England Lane, and family (photo)

Elderly Anna England Lane (photo)

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Our John Lane Sr. (ca.1780-1844) was mistakenly (we think) included in a DAR Application, 
linking him to the wrong Revolutionary Soldier (although his father was supposedly in the Revolutionary War).  Read the files disproving this DAR Application and see the actual documents.  (DAR Application of Emma McKinley Nease for Record of John Lane, Bedford Co., PA) I welcome comments and any researcher's proof either way concerning this issue.

LINKS TO DAR APPLICATION - BEDFORD CO., PA JOHN LANE SR & JR (different from our Sr & Jr)
GO TO SECTION ONE -  (web page 1)  
GO TO SECTION TWO -  (web page 1)  
GO TO SECTION THREE (web page 2)
GO TO SECTION FOUR (web page 3)
GO TO SECTION FIVE (web page 4)
GO TO SECTION SIX (web page 5)
GO TO SECTION SEVEN (web page 6)
Documents supporting my research - coming by 2006

 

Special acknowledgement to my genealogy teacher, co-researcher,
my grandmother Ruth Lane McGary (deceased).

Special acknowledgement to my co-researcher, co-author,
and co-trouble-maker, my sister Cathy Caldwell (deceased).


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