Monongahela Valley directory - farmers - 1859

1859 Directory of Monongahela Valley

Farmers along the banks on the Monongahela River

From the Thurstons Directory of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny Valleys - 1859

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This part of the directory listed locations of these farms by the distance from a certain point (ie 8 miles upstream from Brownsville). based on this information, plus other sources, the locations of the farms listed below are the present day names for the land that their farms occupied.


NAME              Farm size (or notes)            Approx Location
Allen (Bradford)??    	200 ac.                     Donora	
Allen, David           	200ac.                      Across from Victory Hill	
Allen, George         	120 ac.                     South of Donora	
Baird, Judge            100 ac.                     N. of Donora		
Beckett, Samuel  	150 ac.                     Victory Hill	
Bentley, Frank       	100 ac.                     New Eagle	
Bentley, Henry      	200 ac.                     New Eagle	
Biddle, Dr.             150 ac.                     Eldora  		
Black, Cyrus       	75 ac.                     Across from Monongahela 	
Black, Cyrus        	200 ac.                     N. of Monongahela	
Britton, William        150 ac.                     Across from Brownsville		
Chew, James               ?                     S. of West Brownsville		
Clark, Robert        	50 ac.                      Across from Roscoe	
Clark, Samuel       	215 ac.                     Dunlevy	
Cook, Mrs.             	150 ac.                     N. of Fayette City	
Dawson, James           150 ac.                     N. of Vestaburg		
Donaldson, John      	150 ac.                     Allenport	
Dunlavey, Andrew     	100 ac.                     Dunlevy	
Ewalt               	50 ac.                     Bunola	
Feulary, Edward     	100 ac.                     Roscoe	
Forsythe, Robert        200 ac.                     Albany		
Forsythe, William       200 ac.                     Across from Roscoe		
Fourrier, Jessie        100 ac.                     Speers		
Frye, Abraham         	150 ac.                     Charleroi	
Frye, Thomas         	150 ac.                     North Charleroi	
Gardner, John     	100 ac.                     Across from New Eagle	
Gibson, John        distillery                  Belle Vernon (Gibsonton)		
Hazlep, Robert         	150 ac.                     Donora	
Hill, Judge            	150 ac.                     South of Monongahela	
Jones,              	50 ac.                     North Charleroi	
Krepps, Joseph       	100 ac.                     Allenport	
Krepps, Samuel         	300 ac.                     West Brownsville	
Lilley, Amos            250 ac.                     S. of California		
Magogney, David  	100 ac.                     California	
Magogney, William       100 ac.                     California		
Marchand,         	400 ac.                     Newell	
Martin, John          	150 ac.                     Stockdale	
McCurdy,          	100 ac.                     Across from Judge Hill farm.	
McKee, Francis       Grist Mill                     Allenport		
McKee, Joseph        	150 ac.                     Roscoe	
McMahon, Robert      	200 ac.                     Monessen	
Miller,              	200 ac.                     Monessen	
Montgomery,       	200 ac.                     Betw Webster and Monessen 	
Moore, Mark             200 ac.                     Alicia		
Parkinson,William    Paper mill                     Across from New Eagle		
Patrick, Dr.           	300 ac.                     S. of Bunola	
Phillips,            	50 ac. and distillery      California	
Playford, Dr. William 	100 ac.                     West Brownsville	
Powers, John         	150 ac.                     Webster	
Robinson,      		100 ac.                     Victory Hill
Speers, John         	100 ac.                     Speers	
Speers, Noah         	150 ac.                     Speers	
Speers, Solomon     	100 ac.                     Speers	
Stephens,        	150 ac.                 Betw Monessen and Belle Vernon    	
Stockdale, Robert      	150 ac.                     Stockdale	
Thistlewaite, David     150 ac.                     California  		
VanVoohis, Newton       200 ac.                     Charleroi		
VanVoorhis, Abraham   	300 ac.                     Eldora	
Watkins, Solomon     	100 ac.                     Denbo       	
Weir, Samuel        	100 ac.                     Betw Victory Hill and Donora	
Wilson, Jonathon    	150 ac.                     North Charleroi	
Wolfe, Michael          150 ac.                     Allenport		
Woods, Joseph          Saw Mill                     Elco		
Zellers, Uriah         	100 ac.                     Denbo	
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