1This is the top of the workhouse property, up on the hills behind Blawnox. The kids called it tit hill due to the underground water tower that
had just a vent (nipple) at the top. This was one of the places we held
field parties with kids from Fox Chapel High School. The cool ones anyway!
This is the workhouse as seen from near the Allegheny
Top of the looong, cement, staircase leading from Walnut St to the top of a hill where the elementary school was. From 1st grade on I walked a mile
through town, then up those zillion steps. Sometimes twice a day when we went home
for lunch.
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They tore down the old blawnox elementary school in
the early 2000s. The water tower lasted another 10 years until they
tore it down.
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Blawnox elementary school from the bottom of the steps.
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The workhouse, from the south. From the north there was a big wall, with guard towers, right along Freeport Road (old rt 28)
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Hoboken Presby Church. I started going here when
I was 12. Pastor Donald Patchel was a wonderful man and a big moral influence.
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