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[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings    another question.  What year did Beechview
join the city of Pittsburgh?   Was Carrick one of the last
to combine?  and the question remains, when did the
trolley reach Beechview?   Harold Geissenheimer
Derrick J Brashear wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 transitmgr2 at earthlink.net wrote:
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>>E-mail:  transitmgr2 at earthlink.net
>>Message:  what year did the trolley reach
>>Beechview?  Was it the interurban?
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>"Her curiosity and ability to connect the dots from one historical 
>document to another led to the discovery that the community was founded in 
>1905, not 1902, as Beechview's Web site and local historians had touted."
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>"Since then, a core of dedicated civic and community people have quickly 
>organized to arrange the Beechview Centennial Celebration Committee to 
>plan for the July 23, 2005, 100th anniversary. Luckily, there had been no 
>celebration in 1992."
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>e.g. "Luckily, they did not celebrate the 100th anniversary when they 
>originally thought the 90th should have been"
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>Good math there...
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