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House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: June 7, 2013 12:49 PM
From: Representative Mark Mustio
To: All House members
Subject: Resolution Celebrating the Borough of Ben Avon Heights' Centennial (Allegheny County)
 
Next week I will introduce a resolution honoring the Borough of Ben Avon Heights' Centennial Celebration. The Celebration will take place June 21 through 23, 2013.

Ben Avon Heights is situated on a hill above the Ohio River just nine miles from the city of Pittsburgh. The original land belonged to the farms of Samuel Taylor and John Wilson. In 1906 Walter P. Fraser of Ben Avon bought 84 acres on the former Taylor farm and used forty of the acres to build the Ben Avon Country Club and golf course. He opened up the rest of the property for a residential development, calling the area Ben Avon Heights. The rural site attracted Pittsburghers who wanted summer homes.

In 1913 the residents of the area incorporated. The Ben Avon Country Club closed in 1917 and the golf course property was divided into housing lots. In 1920 Shannopin Country Club opened its clubhouse in the Borough. It remains the only commercial property in the Heights.

In the early thirties, John I. Thompson purchased a portion of the John Wilson Farm in Kilbuck Township adjacent to the Heights and built some houses. The current Borough boundaries were set in 1936, when the Borough annexed the “Thompson Plan.”

Ben Avon Heights now contains 148 homes, a community park, and the Shannopin club house in its almost two square mile area. The Borough is governed by a Mayor and Borough Council, all of whom serve as elected volunteers.

Introduced as HR366