The North Flats: Shenango & Penn Avenues History Walks

Name: The North Flats: Shenango & Penn Avenues History Walks
Start: 2024-07-27T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-27T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Beautiful Downtown Sharon

Schedule

Sat Jul 27 2024 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Beautiful Downtown Sharon | Sharon, PA

Join the Sharon Historical Society for our Downtown Sharon History Walks during WaterFire Sharon. We will focus on the North Flats neighborhood. Stops to include the State and Shenango block (G.C. Murphy's/Outdoor Army-Navy), Thomas Theater, Liberty Theatre, Shenango Valley Water Co., Sharon post offices, Modern floods (including the 1959 ice flood), Sharon schools/Penn State Shenango campus, Sharon Congregational Church, House of Torah synagogue/Christ the King Catholic Church, Yazvac Place/Sharon patrolman Joesph Yazvac (killed in the line of duty), Harold Brest (bank robber, kidnapper and unsuccessful Alcatraz escapee), Ashton home, McDowell Manor apartments, the V Bridges, and more!
The History Walks will be approximately 1.5 hours over a 1.6-mile route of flat, mostly shaded terrain, sometimes uneven. Rare photographs and interesting stories will be printed in our collectible booklet!
TIME CHANGE: Walks will begin at 10:00 am, 12:00 pm/Noon, and 2:00 pm on Saturday, July 27th, 2024 during WaterFire Sharon. These are FREE and OPEN TO ALL!! Donations are appreciated!! The starting point will be announced as we get closer to the date.