Ellwood City (Postcard History)

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Ellwood City was once the idea that of 19th-century entrepreneur Henry W. Hartman. In 1889, he formed the Pittsburgh Company to create a the city south of the Connoquenessing Creek near the village of Hazel Dell. Local farm properties were purchased, and the city quickly started to take shape. In conjunction with houses, the primary major building was once the Hotel Oliver. The Ellwood Short Line and later the Beaver and Ellwood Railroads were built to satisfy the demands of the growing steel industry. In 1891, the Ellwood Shafting and Tube Company was once founded, producing the primary seamless steel tubing and organising Ellwood City as the “birthplace of the seamless tube industry.” Mills, financial institutions, stores, schools, churches, civic organizations, and building trades thrived as construction within the new the city grew.

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