frenzy your perspective today we are continuing our series on the disappearing villages of peter's township the village we are visiting today is an issue it is also at the eastern end of peter's township here's a little history of the village in the year eight hundred seventy three when pittsburgh when the pittsburg and southern railroad went through here the station was called interest and after the honorable david him anderson dr anderson operated a coal mine in this area for many years the post office was established in eighteen eighty in the old mccormick store an old grist mill was operated by john swagger in the early eighteenth sixty's it was first operated by horse power later by water power from peter's creek then changed to steam part the operator at that time was fred frank  and helen baird made us now shall we get started going down memory lane who wants to be first not all at once now so maybe we could start off with the started out as a baptist church and then somehow became associated with the the methodist church services were held over there are continuously for a hundred years and then in nineteen twenty two  interior of the old church and if you look at that picture and then look at the pulpit furniture in the church today it's the same it was moved over all the furniture is very old well later on we'll probably see a picture of that and you know which room you enter did you get i would think i was in all of them except the two at the top which was our library and the stage we had in there put on little plays i think once a month my memory serves me ee mccormick who named it he was born in peter's township near the present particle school and who up in peace township and seemingly did everything from what i read he started i guess being a carpenter any was a school teacher started school teacher and peters as well as a couple other townships different times he then became a businessman and start store in the nation and petitioned to get a post office established there and i guess it started in his store first and it was called anderson station and they always delivered on the railroad anderson had been ishmael and you know i talked to his son elmer mccormick when i was maybe twelve or something he was talking to my granddad and he was explaining how that came about  he said his dad was having this problem with the mail being sent the wrong place and so he was he was going to rename the town and he got permission to do that and he had that atlas of world  geography book and he listed post offices and he was trying to find a city that was not in america that's how i got to italy apparently someone and that's how i picked that name well it wasn't dentist then it was it was actually condemnation well see the the territory and us was the capital of the nation  when the administration changed he was out of office so this was a plague thing and he then did something else and he became well he was just a piece or something like nine years history he was a staunch republican no one's perfect he went on and back around the time of benjamin harris he got signed up again as being postmaster and it was a deal supposedly said that if it gets the postmaster job he'll name this child that's  superintendent some of them were officers in is that when you're from day one from the from yes i come home we come home from florida at that time in the cradle roll certificate was made out that was was a great aunt of mine she was in charge of all there and then i joined church and i have more pictures to chose to take pictures since i was growing up in their was the name of it and that he gave that to his daughter who apparently married frank mcconaughey and some a kind of a satellite connection there then and this this thing and he modernizes by so i mean that may have been enough it would begin to get up the road here and be very very nice people and they kept in a calm and they would give you the change exactly does penny because we always laughed about this because margaret who was the sister always kept the billing it all the dealing and i went up one day and the order came my mother given me to twenty dollars because she didn't know what it would be on the delivery that the thursday francis would go around the celestion orders drive around he had a little route so this big go to the family and take down the order on thursday and early friday and the  that you could buy but it was over on the left if you went over on the left hand side of their store you could get some painting candy that was a big attraction for all the children around there i'm sure certainly w l well we've gone this far now is mcconaughey store shall we go on up the road and see what else we have or is this the more things you want to talk about with money or any of anything the on ill mrs david reese which was an anderson member of the church and caring granted a nurse to come there full time and  was well at the in the story i heard on the house next door which was to see white and apparently she was a schoolteacher we have a picture of her then in looking for the trying to find some history on the post office we we found you'll see it in the rolls of pictures there is lady putting up the westbound mail first class mail going west right down by the railroad track right behind her is a testy why cabs facing a railroad track sometime in the thirty's ashcraft which was a big mover of everything can you take a picture what it he had a larger family and my grandmother was one of the daughters in a family mary elizabeth grant case where she married her pretty warner case here and active in the church in the grant house before they were married and then mary elizabeth was my grandmother and this is her in her it looks like this now they have they built a garage in later years on it july so we were all sort of related and this was my mother there were two for the case spears had two daughters blanche and film and that ranch when on the back of this postcard it nineteen sixteen and stated so my mother would be twenty she was born in one thousand nine hundred five so she would be twenty one years old in that picture our so have a picture of the four sisters in the grant family and here's their home the one it's still standing along the main street in the nation and you can look at it and see the dirt road now some of the windows so it's recent by your stroke that they've changed the wind is it that's just before up at the side of the road i think you could see it in this picture hold that up again you can see part of it it was right at the edge of the road and that's what we call them grant park grant right to the left of the pine tree  two years she was an alter not married schoolteacher but she was lovely the last of them mccormick family and this is another picture was the superintendent of schools i think he taught up it charters houston in his more latter years but elmer was my mother's cousin and she gave  piano lessons in his home he was in the military and they'd lived up around the tippled when they were in their younger years and they were real close to my aunts and and on a good evening there were three different real oscillation the size of the of the circle i was just a kid young man but i enjoyed going down there and listening to the older men talk and the nicest thing that i remember though was when my son started to first grade he was my son's bus driver he was my all through high school in school and everything and he was my son's already lived up going the come in and a little before that i also read his bus and i remember that every once in a while i don't know if it was cold or something was wrong because i have no idea what is under the hood  bus but he would always had a hammer or something and he would hit something with the hammer in the head apparently he started the bus like that i got i had a lot of fun memories in the garage and t i've not been able to confirm that that home that was in there apparently belonged to gibbs and i haven't been able to confirm this drugstore story apparently was there from some of the miners they tell me but can't find it well maybe somebody it's watching this program or something maybe they can let us know about a good idea or someone the even probably has pictures of some of the things that are well i'm hoping that some of this w away from this should itself it will not be about road with my first grade teacher up it's our hill mrs hamilton in the she lived right up on the bank up there just a little piece up from where this drug store was supposed to be and i was told i was already married and had kids and there were the and i was working up with the way it was murphy was then and she came up to the counter  and here my grand mother and grandfather they didn't go but they heard the train blowing and they said oh my there's must be something on the track and here if it did it that train was coming out of the car some way in her back to her scalp and all was just lined with cinders from being drugged like that but she recuperated she had a private nurse too that she admired all through as a young child we would go down to that school building it was still remaining there at that time when we'd take picnic lunch in a town that's in the yard at their right hand side of it and fitch there's a loss flightless bob jones you know jack green here's a light in his new car which also show you the post office in the background see it there that's the second post office we think  there is yeah that's the area surrounding venice and that was one of the periods here it is in eight hundred sixty six when they were building italy fifty one that's one of the sears unit post office and all the sections are interchangeable you can move the windows in the doors to where you want to and that's somebody hunting camp now in the mountains  oh here's where i get my great looks see they got a laugh this is my grandfather's grandfather and you can see we still use the same tailor snow directly in the background is that mccracken store in the what was the smith house there in the snow removal from main street mccracken many let me name sounds i guess was eight hundred ninety four i think they said some kind of a gathering yeah that's the ringgold battalion that's a reunion the ringgold battalion vinicius contribute a lot of people that fought a civil war this is when farmers traded work for bailing and so forth but i das you right in the middle there i remember when they were taking my vacation from go telephone at the time when there was harvesting was there when we could get the meal ready for all the harvesters and here's a way station they tell me cattle drives from green county would come before the railroad and they'd put their cows behind his barn over night and before they'd take him on to the ball field came from for all those years it was known as the buffy and baseball was a big thing back in those days from before the turn of the century up until into the fift  the park called the militia athletic association and i know some things that went on there because my father was the first president that admission to the show by carrying water for the elephants the other animals then i also remember a square dance in the summer evening right on the most of the band with a color anymore that makes any sense so maybe as we're going through here you can make some remarks about what used to be there ok here we go that will be known as the vanishing here the age community center that we're going to call a tiny so you need them keep watching for things is going to be happening down there one of my daughters relieved up  i met my husband and i just celebrated our fiftieth anniversary sunday at that church this sunday and we had the it was by the old church it's not used today though is it i like to go through old cemetery and just look at the date that i took my grand my uncle that our children when they were small and their first cousins and we took a hike that day we parked at a church and walked down that  was this is that the picture of that house where the the band the string people were standing up with a pump that's george lucas house after the civil war station yeah the barns sat right in there and there's a coal mine in the hill right about where mining there now they sold it through that phrase it was there before this respect was such a beautiful day when we were there with you is really nice from up on the park that you can look across yesterday and today and in between and today it's those anybody have any more remarks about anything we've missed anything lately i can't think of anything and i where did you live in well i lived in the right historical haase when we first moved here and then we lived on the cones in forty five my parents bought a home the gives people have to have a place to live i remember like you when you're coming down just about in an older known orchard highlands i mean that used to be the most beautiful apple orchard in the spring with just a blaze with doris has been teaching in the school district for twenty nine years and she knows i'm off a lot about time to school and roberta has lived in corner which gradually got taken away by the road system when i was reading we had a dirt road just very dusty i can remember my father bringing oil and they wind it again which took our hedge my grandmother had a huge weeping willow tree that was beautiful right in that corner it's gone ahead just gone and the house is sitting right on the a really my father told of carrying the bricks there were huge bricks in the road they got a penny a brick when they carried it over to build the road to build store can lie so again where he taught in the family then well that so he had the furniture store and also up closer to the house by the bridge there he had a blacksmith shop and right across was  laxness that meant a lot of horses yeah but there were two blacksmith shop there was mcconaughey store which sold made groceries and in the back they had high top shoes which they opened up all of this many years ago and i got a pair of women's high pop genuine leather shoes for a quarter wow  all a lot of things and vanessa there were my row houses like three in a row and they weren't anything like the condominiums but we and we went hand in hand the first day of school and it was a damn i like best friend you could ever have in this world i mean he was in your first grade class to rosamond's i don't really know how many kno were are trying to tell you a little bit about the mission school when i was going there at that time there were just six classrooms and then later there were more kids came so they changed our auditorium which was on the second floor into two big classrooms there but as i said we're usually to have two grades in each classroom so we moved then so many of us moved within second year over to another room where margaret lash was a teacher our first grade teacher had been real the case bear came from philly val i think and then we kept kept going along like that but the school i like the school and everybody knew everyone else and so forth and when i ran for the big ready ater that was in the floor on the first of the first for the school and on the corner mornings and there'd be a whole group of us there are many more men and one nice warm air would come up and that was good but one thing i didn't like about it was the the fire alarm it was so loud that it just made you jump out of your seat but we did did a lot of things and  at first in the auditorium we had programs in the parents would come and that's where i made my singing debut i guess god in first grade i had to sing a special song but i guess it went alright i don't really remember all i know i was to look at a light in the back of the room and i looked at it and it was your guide and  we went by straight through the middle school my right there and then we moved over to the high school well i didn't see the school for member  years because i left when i graduated from high school and went to business school and then worked in pittsburgh for a long time in an office and then finally i decided i wanted to change things a little bit so i went back to school and at the university of pittsburgh studying to become a teacher so fifteen years after i graduated from high school i came back to the  first grade first grade my first day there i had a wound assignment sheet but by the time they all got into the room i had over fifty kids in there oh my goodness i'm wrong god i mean some of them got in the wrong home room that year but he wound up with one because margaret did jenny was brought from the other red lava and she took half of the kids and i took the other half and that's how how we divvied them up there but i i just got to stay had been issued for about a year and a half and then they opened the grove school i guess it was and i thought i thought that's where i was going but i didn't i when i wound up at mcmurry school oh and we packed everything up lock stock and barrel brooks papers everything we had shopping bags we put our  things in those and took us by bus to make mery school and that's where i stayed for a number of years from till pleasant valley opened and then i moved there for a while and so i managed to get to all the elementary schools over the years like i was we were talking before a lot of kids you have seen and she taught english which helped me a bundle when i went on the school it was good you know when i came back to teach mrs butler was still that house is still part of the house you know the big fan porch is gone you know and and the porch on be about right there's nothing there just sitting on the road it's nothing like it used to be but we had and it's unbelievable it was higher than our heads it was water but it was enrolled it looked like almost telephone poles oh my goodness and it was coming straight out as and  big it had four families in it an apartment for families it turned that on the foundation and the man made a line and brought the people from that apartment house over to my grandmother's porch  it was it was awesome i saw norman patton's dog on top of the dog house on top of this water and they never did find these dogs it's terrible terrible  we could go on and on and on like this isn't that really oh we have some very good interesting things that you have said and all and i'm sure that everybody appreciates all that so i just wish to