Comments on: Past History Mysteries

By: Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:17:53 +0000

I had earlier believed that the photo titled “Crossing the Connoquenessing 1892″ was a photo of Grimm’s Bridge in Ewing Park… but it ends up that the photo is actually the “High Bridge” that crosses the Conny west of Ellwood City right before Rock Point.

By: Hugh Osmus

Hugh Osmus — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:55:43 +0000

hi, looking at a brochure from 1899, of Hartman Mfg.Co.
Ellwood city,Pa.
it was purchased by the Glen Mfg.Co. in 1902.
does the Glen co. still exists there, or was it also purchased/name changed?
there is a picture on the 1st page of a man milking a cow in a *Hartman fenced yard. caption says I can send in a 2 cent stamp and get a nice enamel print of the picture. ha ha.

By: Sharon (Welch) Tritt

Sharon (Welch) Tritt — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:06:39 +0000

You posted that the Blue and White Restaurant was open late 50′s early 60′s, I don’t know how long it was open but it was open in late 40′s early 50′s my sister worked there around 49 or 50 while she was in school.

By: Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:31:13 +0000

Within your post on Grimm’s Bridge (the interurban bridge from Railroad Street in Ellport to Ewing Park), you ask for pictures of that bridge… I think you already have a picture of Grimm’s Bridge on your website. In the album “Bridges & Railroads”, I’d be willing to bet that the photo titled “Crossing the Connoquenessing 1892″ is Grimm’s Bridge.
The trolley only crossed the Connoquennesing three times in the vicinity of Ellwood City. The crossing at Country Club Drive has the tall concrete piers and the water level is only about ten or fifteen feet lower than the road grade. I’ve seen pictures of the Knox Bridge (from River Road in Frisco to Railroad Street in Ellport), in fact, there are three pictures of the Knox Bridge in your Album of “Bridges & Railroads”… the pictures titled “Trolley #114 on the Knox Bridge”, “Interurban Bridge Ellwood City” and “Interurban Trolley Bridge 1909″ are all of the Knox Bridge.

The iron work on the Knox Bridge is completely different from the iron work on the interurban bridge in the picture title “Crossing the Connoquennesing 1892″, and the riverbanks are very steep and high, just as the location of Grimm’s Bridge. I’m going to walk down by the creek at Ewing Park and see if some of those huge rocks compare with this picture, but I’d bet this picture is Grimm’s Bridge.

Also, I think the picture titled “Shelby Seamless Tube Plant from Interurban Bridge-Publ by Walter Kimmich” from the album “Views of Ellwood City”, was taken from standing on Grimm’s Interurban Bridge. With the position of the mill, I think the view is straight out over Burnstown and the creek is headed down around the bend toward Ewing Park Bridge (or the old Simm’s Street Bridge).

Opinions anybody???