The massive first- and second-generation landholders in the western U.S. In the article, it details how local farmers were struggling against not only the tide of huge western farming, but also the desire to attain a “modern” style of living, something that the previous generations had never considered.
Once one of the largest communities in our county, it would disappear completely by the 1930s. The article gives us insight into the waning days of Beaver County’s Moon Township. The article was from April 1890 and was covered by the Pittsburgh Dispatch, one of the city’s biggest newspapers until its closure in 1923. During a recent trip to the Carnegie Library in Oakland to review some old newspapers, I was presented with an article about struggling farmers in Moon Township, Beaver County.
Usually, we don’t stop to consider the social, economic or political conditions that were pushing or pulling the context of the world during that particular era.Įvery so often, I come across a piece of research that does just that. When we think about history, we tend to imagine the people of the past as stuck in a single moment of time.
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