"The Jerome Street Bridge replaces two narrow steel bridges erected in 1890 and crosses the Youghiogheny River to McKeesport. It was completed in August 1939 at a construction cost of $575,033 and a project cost of $783,124."
(Short and Brown)

Record breaking aviatrix & her partner, Frances Marsalies after they broke the record for longest in-air flight.

One of the four McKeesport Soldiers who carried Lincoln from Ford's Theater

First African-American woman editor of a nationally distributed newspaper.

Artwork by reknown McKeesport illustrator, Arnold Varga for Cox's Dept. Store

Opened in 1926, the Penn McKee Hotel was the place for all important events. V.I.P. guests included Amelia Earhart, who stayed there when visiting her friend, McKeesport Aviatrix Helen Richey, and Harry S. Truman. In 1947, then-congressmen Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy held a debate of the Taft-Hartley labor act in the ballroom.

1976 fire that started on the roof of The Famous, a closed McKeesport department store.

Miss America 1935

"The Jerome Street Bridge replaces two narrow steel bridges erected in 1890 and crosses the Youghiogheny River to McKeesport. It was completed in August 1939 at a construction cost of $575,033 and a project cost of $783,124."
(Short and Brown)

Record breaking aviatrix & her partner, Frances Marsalies after they broke the record for longest in-air flight.

One of the four McKeesport Soldiers who carried Lincoln from Ford's Theater

First African-American woman editor of a nationally distributed newspaper.

Artwork by reknown McKeesport illustrator, Arnold Varga for Cox's Dept. Store

Opened in 1926, the Penn McKee Hotel was the place for all important events. V.I.P. guests included Amelia Earhart, who stayed there when visiting her friend, McKeesport Aviatrix Helen Richey, and Harry S. Truman. In 1947, then-congressmen Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy held a debate of the Taft-Hartley labor act in the ballroom.

1976 fire that started on the roof of The Famous, a closed McKeesport department store.

Miss America 1935