Franklin Park Borough
Links to Historical Information about Franklin Park Borough
Franklin Park Stories
- Blue Laws
- Blueberry Hill Has History
- Field Club Estates – “How a Texan’s Love of Golf Helped Create Franklin Park”
- Robert G. Woodside and the Stone Mansion
- Oil and Gas Stories
- Crime Stories – part 1
- Crime Stories – part 2
- Harmony Line Trolleys
- Synthesis: From an interview with and the writings of George R. Purifoy, Jr.
- Ingomar Manor – “…a marvelous place in which to grow up…”
- Old Cemeteries Filled with Art and Verse
Newspaper Articles
- September 24, 1838 Affidavit of James Wakefield, of Franklin township, Allegheny County
- June 14, 1937 Ingomar Church Acquires Organ Once Heard by Guests of Mellons
- January 21, 1961 Boro Status is requested by Franklin Township
- July 13, 2000 (page E-1) Soergel Family has Spent 150 years down on the farm in Wexford
- December 15, 2004 Council Seeks Role in Cabin Expenditures
- December 21, 2004 Council Approves Foundation Support of Jones-Neely House
Franklin Park Oral Histories
Northland has a collection of oral history binders available for reference use at the library. From 2001-2002 interviews were conducted with some of the long-time residents of Franklin Park. Most of the binders contain the taped interviews, transcripts of the interviews and some accompanying materials.
Oral Histories are available for:
- Penny Fifer (and Barbara Fifer Kurylo) – Download here
- Barbara Fifer Kurylo – Download side one here; Download side two here
- Bertha Skiles Fiscus – Download side one here; Download side two here
- Glen Ford, Bellwood Dairy Farm – Download side one here; Download side two here
- Chester Frazier (and Shirley Eberhardt Frazier) – Download side one here; Download side two here
- Shirley Eberhardt Frazier – Download side one here; Download side two here
- Paul Hague, World War II Veteran – Download tape one, side one here; Download tape one, side two here; Download tape two, side one here; Download tape two, side two here; Download tape three, side one here; Download tape three, side two here.
- Margaret “Peg” Trimble Lees – Download tape one, side one here; Download tape one, side two here; Download tape two here
- Letha Skiles Makray – Download here
- Katherine Gross Miller – Download side one here; Download side two here
- Mary Pegher Richwalls – Download here
- Herbert Sarver – Download tape one, side one here; Download tape one, side two here; Download tape two, side one here; Download tape two, side two here
- Zelda Mohr Sarver (and Birdie Sarver Steele) – Download side one here; Download side two here
- Birdie Sarver Steele – Download tape one, side one here; Download tape one, side two here; Download tape two here
- William “Bill” Hoffman 2005 – Download side one here; Download side two here
