Horseshoe Curve On Monongahela River
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Pennsylvania Scenery. Horseshoe Curve on Monongahela River near Brownsville, California, and Charleroi, Pa.
That is actually called Newell on the other side of the river. It is standing at High Point looking back down, Coal Center and then California would be to the right. Elco Hill and then Roscoe would be to the left. Charleroi is actually much further downstream on the left side and Brownsville much futher upstream on the right side with the river flowing from right to left, from south to north, in this photograph. There was a cable pulled automobile and passenger ferry boat that operated between Coal Center and Newell located at about the 4 o'clock position on the lower right side crossing the river, a bit of brown roadway appears to approach the river on the Newell side and is probably where the ferry connected on that side. The towers sticking up on the Newell side were from the Newell chemical plant but have no recollection of what exactly they manufactured, perhaps sulfuric acid as was rumored but I really do not know for sure. Old Route 88 would be how to get to this loca! tion today after climbing up Elco Hill (left side) to High Point (lower center) or up from Coal Center and California (right side), with Route 88 running between Pittsburgh to the north, following the river for most of the way all the way through to Morgantown, WV to the far south and across the Mason Dixon Line which forms the lower state line between PA to the north and MD and WVa to the south of it. |
