Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Former Dravo Shipbuilding at Neville Island
http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=40.511523,-80.121531&spn=0.003344,0.007296&t=h&z=17&om=1
It's hard to believe today that Neville Island, a few scant miles from Pittsburgh was a major hub for warship building, but during WWII Dravo built many LSTs and subchasers at the company's Neville facility, from where they had to transit the whole length of the Ohio and Mississippi before finally hitting saltwater. Today, Dravo is but a memory, but traces of the operations still remain - the drydocks under the foliage are gone, but traces still remain - zooming out will show the remaining facilities to the right of these. I always thought it would've been appropriate to bring back an LST to Neville as a memorial- had the "Poison Park" at the end of the island opened, this would've been an ideal location.
It's hard to believe today that Neville Island, a few scant miles from Pittsburgh was a major hub for warship building, but during WWII Dravo built many LSTs and subchasers at the company's Neville facility, from where they had to transit the whole length of the Ohio and Mississippi before finally hitting saltwater. Today, Dravo is but a memory, but traces of the operations still remain - the drydocks under the foliage are gone, but traces still remain - zooming out will show the remaining facilities to the right of these. I always thought it would've been appropriate to bring back an LST to Neville as a memorial- had the "Poison Park" at the end of the island opened, this would've been an ideal location.
Warden headstones at Sewickley Cemetery
These stones struck me as particularly sad- the son never knew his father, and wasn't even two years old when his mother passed - he soon followed :-(
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