The House Where We Began being moved from Sharpsburg

1904

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The House Where We Began being moved from Sharpsburg
  • Title
  • The House Where We Began being moved from Sharpsburg
  • Identifier
  • MSP57.B006.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP57.B006.I02
  • Description
  • “The House Where We Began” (left center) being prepared by the Kress-Hanlon Company to be relocated to the H.J. Heinz Company main plant in Allegheny City, currently Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood, where it served as a museum and memorial. The Kress-Hanlon Company jacked up the house on blocking timbers (pictured here), trussed it with cables and rolled it 800 feet from Main Street in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, to the right bank of the Allegheny River on March 1. The ground was so soft that they could only proceed about fifty feet per day. Kress and Hanlon slid the house onto the largest coal barge they could find so that it could begin its voyage five miles down the Allegheny River. H.J Heinz helped his father build this house and lived in it from the age of ten until his marriage there at age twenty-five. He and his partner Noble started the business at the house in 1869 where they grated and bottled his horseradish in the kitchen. In 1952 the house was dismantled and rebuilt in Greenfield Village, Michigan.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Heinz House (Sharpsburg, Pa.)
    Sharpsburg (Pa.)
    House moving--Pennsylvania--Sharpsburg.
    Kress-Hanlon Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • H.J. Heinz Company, Photographs, 1864-1991, MSP 57, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • H.J. Heinz Company Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Senator John Heinz History Center
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  • Rights Holder
  • Senator John Heinz History Center