Roscoe’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Roscoe. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Roscoe became the home for many eastern European immigrants who came to the area to work in nearby coal mines. Slovaks, Poles, Serbs, Croatians, Italians, Hungarians, and Rusyns are all represented in census records of the area from 1880 onward.
The Allenport & Roscoe Street Railway was formed in 1903 and was purchased by Pittsburgh Railways to form part of their interurban line to Pittsburgh in 1906. The 2.4 miles (3.9 km) extension to Roscoe was completed on June 20, 1910. The line was closed in 1953.
The town was originally named Lucyville as early as 1860; however, the community changed its name to Roscoe in honor of the maiden name of a local resident, Mrs. Joseph Underwood,
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Roscoe’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Roscoe’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewRoscoe, Washington Co., Pennsylva…, 1902: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Roscoe
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Roscoe, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Roscoe is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Roscoe has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Molly Fleming House in California, 1.3 miles away.
Roscoe and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Roscoe, Washington Co., Pennsylvania 1902 (1902) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.