Looking Back: Webster
Courtesy the Buck Family
The W.P. Snyder Jr. sternwheeler is shown in the early 20th Century docked along the Monongahela River in Webster.
Looking down Third Street to Webster Hollow Road at things that aren’t there anymore in this photo that was taken circa 1960.
For this issue’s dose of nostalgia, we return to Webster. The Rostraver Township Census-designated place was laid out in 1833 by Benjamin Beazell and named after Federalist statesman Daniel Webster. In the “History of the county Westmoreland, Pennsylvania” published in 1882 and written by G.D. Albert, it states that Webster was the largest town in Rostraver Township. Webster is also where Samuel Walker built the first steamboat on the Monongahela River.
Courtesy the Buck Family
Buck’s Garage along Webster Hollow Road in Webster in the early 20th Century.