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Martin Kovach, a Union Leader of Ellwood City United Steelworkers,
meets with Phil Murray, head of the Steelworkers Union
Part of a nuclear reactor being built at the New Castle
Mesta Plant
Many local angler's fished Cascade Park Lake after it
was restocked in the 1950's
Lt. Commander Robert Shumaker
and his North Vietnamese captors.
A bird's eye view of the 1975 destruction of an entire
city block to make way for the Washington Center
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1950
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Korean War begins. 3,200 from
county served. 21 did not return.
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1950
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Huge snowfall buries area
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1953
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Major labor strike at Shenango
China
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1954
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Supreme Court outlaws school segregation
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1954
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First black teacher hired in New Castle School district,
John Bush
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1955
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Salk polio vaccine proven effective in preventing polio.
Dr. Thomas Francis head of Salk team - local resident
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1955
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Shenango China commisioned to make plates for Eisenhower
White House
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1956
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Mesta moves into vacant United Engineering plant
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1957
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McConnell's Mill designated State Park
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1958
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Shenango China sold
to Sobiloff Brothers
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1958
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Cascade Park Lake reopened
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1961
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Lt. Governor Brown house behind New Castle High
School torn down to make practice field
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1963
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President Kennedy Assassinated
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1963
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Kurtz house on corner of Croton and East Washington Streets
in New Castle torn down to make a parking lot
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1965
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Civil Rights March to Selma,
Alabama turns deadly, killing local civil rights activist Reverand James
Reeb
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1965
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Lt. Commander Robert H. Shumaker taken prisoner by North
Vietnamese
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1965
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Quality Tools (Old Forge) in New Wilmington is sold to
the Dowley Company
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1965
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Mr. and Mrs. Alex Crawford Hoyt donate the home of May
Emma Hoyt to the Lawrence Cultural Association.
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1967
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New Castle native, Raymond Shafer inaugurated as Governor
of Pennsylvania
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1968
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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy assasinated
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1968
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Shenango China sold
to Interpace
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1972
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U. S. Steel leaves
Ellwood City
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1973
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War in Vietnam ends. 4500
served; 36 never returned and Lt. Commander
Robert Shumaker is released from North Vietnamese
prison
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1975
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Lawrence Savings and Trust torn down along with whole
block for Washington Center
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1981
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Dam breaks at Cascade Park
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1981
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Johnson Bronze closes
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1987
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First "Back to the 50's Weekend" held in downtown New
Castle
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1991
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Shenango China closes
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1993
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Rockwell International closes
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