Looking Back: Happy Birthday, Monongahela

Courtesy of Monongahela Area Historical Society

This log house, dismantled in 1914 in the 100 block of West Main Street in Monongahela, was where Albert Gallatin delivered a speech that ended the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794.

Members of the military conduct a memorial service circa 1895 for Civil War veterans buried in Monongahela Cemetery.

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Monongahela Cemetery was established over 150 years ago. The cemetery is host to veterans, historical figures and an old stone chapel.

Reporter Scott Beveridge explains this old photo: “Pennsylvania footballers. Monongahela High School. 1919. Pulled from the trash when the Daily Herald newspaper closed in 1986.”

Harold Weaver, a musician who taught scores of kids to play guitar in Monongahela, is shown, seated, second from left, in this photo taken in the 1920s. Weaver taught music lessons to more than 18,000 kids. He accomplished that by quietly walking his students through their lessons in the basement of an old apartment building in the city’s downtown, almost until the day he died in 1997.

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A statue named The Hiker when it was dedicated before a new post office was built in 1915 in Monongahela.

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An excursion boat at the Second Street wharf at the Monongahela River in Monongahela in September 1908.