Norvelt
Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Norvelt The Wall Street Crash of 1929 drained Americans of their life savings and the resulting Great Depression hit rural southwestern Pennsylvania particularly hard. Industries collapsed and high unemployment struck the region’s bituminous coal workers. In 1934, the federal government and the AmericanFriends Service Committee, a Quaker social service organization founded in 1917 in Philadelphia,...read more