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Last Update January 11 2016

Tully’s scheduled to be demolished!!!

JOHN ZAVINSKI | Herald - By MICHAEL ROKNICK Herald Business Writer 5 hrs ago wkbn.com The end of Tully's Pub and Grill closest to Connelly Boulevard was built in the 1870s as the Pennsylvania Railroad passenger station.

SHARON – It’s the last call and the end of the line for Tully’s Pub and Grille. Once an icon of downtown Sharon, it will be demolished beginning this week. Its owner, TravelCenters of America, made the final decision last week to raze most of the multiple, connected structures at the site. “The buildings are in a very, very dilapidated condition,’’ said Tom Liutkus, senior vice president of marketing and public relations for TravelCenters, which acquired the property when it bought the Sharon-based Quaker Steak and Lube restaurant chain out of bankruptcy last year. Leaky roofs, buckling floors and broken windows can be found throughout the buildings, Liutkus said. Tully’s has mostly been closed in recent years, but it would reopen on special occasions.


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A brief history of the Shenango Furnace in Sharpsville, PA, which is now the site of the Development of Sharpsville Furnace. Learn more about this area's past, present, and future plans for development.

Sharpsville First Railroad War

This article is copyrighted and courtesy of the Sharpsville Area Historical Society.  If you would like more information on the Sharpsville Railroad, inquire at sharpsvillehistorical.org or attend one of their meetings.

Sharpsville’s major link to the outside world in its formative years was the Erie Extension Canal, also known as the Beaver & Erie Canal. But as the Canal Era gave way to the Age of Rail, so too did these linkages to the outside world. While “General” James Pierce, then one of the Shenango Valley’s great coal barons, would become intimately connected with Sharpsville’s development, why did he choose what was at that time barely a town (and legally part of Hickory Township) as a terminus for the output from his mines is due to three factors: First, his foray into the iron- making that would both multiply his fortune and gain him renown was almost accidental: ownership of the Old Sharpsville Furnace came into his hands in 1859 as settlement for a coal debt. While he would not begin building additional blast furnaces until 1868, the original furnace here was a significant consumer of the block coal from the Pierce mines. Second, before the construction of railroads, the canal was the only means to traffic the coal beyond the Shenango Valley, with the nearest accessible section of the canal being at or near Sharpsville. (Even after the completion of rail links, the canal carried 30% of the shipments from the mines in Hickory Township.) Finally, Sharpsville is located downhill from Hermitage. The coal from Pierce’s mines in Hickory Township (now Hermitage) was initially carried by a tramway or “gravity railroad”. Gravity assisted its horse-drawn cars for the shipments into Sharpsville; the return journey uphill was with empty cars. Where this tramway met the canal boats is uncertain. It may have been where near where Pine Run (i.e., the creek that forms Pine Hollow) empties into the Shenango River, then the Slackwater segment of the canal.

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