Historic Map - Glassport, PA - 1902
Description
View of Glassport, Allegheny County, P.A., 1902 / drawn & published by T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer.
This panoramic print of Glassport, Pennsylvania was drawn by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler and published by T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer in 1902. Glassport is illustrated here in the year it broke off from Port Vue township and was incorporated as a borough along the Monongahela River. The community adopted the name after a huge glass factory located there. The Pittsburgh Glass Works produced pressed glass of all sorts. Glassport also held a large foundry owned by the Pittsburgh Steel Company.
The map from 1902 includes labeled streets, buildings, riverboats and railroad lines.
Features numbered & lettered references to the following locations:
- Public School.
- The American Axe & Tool Co.
- United States Glass Works.
- Pittsburgh Steel Foundry.
- Pittsburgh Steel Co.
- Spike & Rivet Works. S. Severance, Proprietor.
- The Pittsburgh Coke & Gas Co.
- P. & L. E. R. R. Station.
- St. Cecilia Catholic Church.
- Trinity United Evangelical Church.
- First Methodist Episcopal Church.
- Baptist Church.
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