THE SOCIETY
NEWS
All the latest information
on the Monroeville
Historical Society.
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By Robert Elms
MHS Welcomes
Summer Visitors
T
he Monroeville Historical
Society (MHS) has two general
missions: (1) to help preserve our
community’s heritage and (2) to educate
the public as to our common history. As
warmer weather approaches, our thoughts
center on outside activities. Monroeville
is very fortunate to have several historical
landmarks. In particular, a stone house
and a log house whose history goes back
to the Early American time period. These
houses are furnished with Early American period items. Also,
the historical homes’ site has a functional outside beehive oven
similar to Early American period design. The Society uses this
oven for baking and cooking.
The historical homes’ site offers many hands-on educational
opportunities. The Society encourages local schools to consider
scheduling a spring field trip to visit the historical homes.
Students can experience churning cream into butter and tasting
that butter on freshly baked bread from our beehive oven.
Students can see and touch a straw mattress supported by a rope
on a period bed frame, and much more.
Another Historical Landmark includes the Old Stone Church,
first built on the site in 1834. The 1834 church was dismantled,
rebuilt and rededicated on the site in 1896. This building was an
active church until 1970 when it was given to the Municipality of
Monroeville as a recognized Historic Landmark. A guided tour
of the Old Stone Church and the adjacent Crossroads Cemetery
is being offered by the Monroeville Parks and
Recreation Department on June 16. This tour
will be given by Louis and Lynn Chandler,
members of the Monroeville Historical
For more information about the Monroeville Historical
Society.
Society, visit monroevillehistorical.org, e-mail
The church, with pictures, was in a March 9
New York Times article titled “From Crayons
[email protected] or call 412.856.1000.
to Chemo, He’s Back by Her Side.” This is a
storybook love story come true.
MONROEVILLE
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