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From: Sally Wasiura <>
Subject: Re: [PA] Re: Sligo, PA
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 10:46:34 -0400
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Melinda, you painted a wonderful picture for me. It meant a lot, thanks so very
much.
PS: To all PA-Listers who responded so kindly re: Sligo. You are a generous group
of kind people. Thanks.
Sarah

wrote:

> Sligo: Excerpt from: Clarion County and its beginnings
> The first settlers of whom there is record were the William Craig Family and
> Richard
> Reynolds. Furnaces for the manufacture of pig iron were being built at
> various points in the county. William Lyon, Colonel JP Lyon and Anthony
> Shorb built Sligo furnace in 1845. The name of Sligo was taken from the
> furnace company's iron works near
> Pittsburgh, PA, which had in turn rec'd its name from a county in Ireland.,
> no doubt the ancestral home of the Lyon family. The town at that time
> consisted chiefly of the homes of the Lyon families and employees. They
> lived in lordly style and their houses and grounds remain as monuments of
> their once proud state........
>
> The new town of Sligo was laid out by the old furnace company in 1871.
> 1873 Sligo Hotel erected, 1873-74 The M. E. Church and the Presbyterian
> Church
> were erected, as well as a public school 1878 the borough of Sligo was
> organized.
>
> I was there last summer, it is a crossroads town, the street signs all have
> shamrocks on them. The sign coming into Sligo says: Welcome to Sligo, A
> Little Bit of Ireland.
> The Methodist Church is still there, beautiful, Looks like the original wood
> inside
> The Pres. church is there, but is brand new.
> I wrote to the pastors of both churches, Oct 1999, no response to date/
> Hope this helps, just a little
> Melinda in VA
> Searching Blitz, Fern, Craig, Soliday, Sweet, Wise, in Clarion and
> Venango Counties.
>
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