The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch has partnered with the Baldwin Historical Society to bring you a weekly trivia question that delves into our area's colorful past.
Pat Lombardi and Patty Woehler, co-presidents of the society, generously write the questions and provide the pictures.
Here is this week's question:
This illustration from 1866 shows the home of Pittsburgh Glass Works, also known as the Agnew & Company Glass Factory.
The factory included two furnaces, and finishing shops covered over an acre of land. The glass house was built by John Agnew Sr. and operated for more than 20 years.
The factory had a five-pot furnace that was used in manufacturing green flint glass bottles and vials. Twenty-one glass blowers were employed, and nearly 100 laborers worked for the company.
During this period, Pittsburgh was a major glass manufacturer.
Where was this factory located?
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Margaret French
10:15 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
I think it was on Becks Run Road. I think it was the corner where Agnew is now but when they eventually built a road there they named it Agnew. Just a guess.
Robert Edward Healy, III
3:36 pm on Monday, July 30, 2012
Couldn't have been closer! The answer is B, Brownsville Road.
Piper
8:43 am on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Hint for me was the streetcar tracks on the road.
Margaret French
12:02 am on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Got me that time. LOL
Margaret French
9:20 am on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Piper- I should of looked at the photo better! I didn't notice that.
Lois
12:48 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
OK, what was the address on Brownsville Road? That's pretty good size road as you know and the part that is now Brentwood Boro did not separate from Baldwin until 1915 -- the year that my Dad was born. That how remember the year.
Robert Edward Healy, III
1:10 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Lois, we'll see what we can find out.
Robert Edward Healy, III
10:41 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
From Pat Lombardi:
"It was located south of Concord Presbyterian Church, between there and (Madeline) Street."
So that's Carrick.