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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. 4,500 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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