The Harmonist Wool Block

The southeast block at the intersection of Church and Thirteenth Streets was a center of the Harmony Society's woolen industry and other trades. From 1826 until about 1845, the wool mill stood on the corner of Twelfth Street and Ohio View Avenue, now State Route 65, next to the dye shop. The weavers shop stood in the center of the block behind the wine press building on Church Street, and two wool houses, a warehouse, and a dry house completed the woolen industry there. Behind the dry house on the south side of Thirteenth Street, the Harmonist bee yard and hops grove were tended. Almost all of the buildings on the block were demolished around the turn of the twentieth century to make room for the growing housing needs of the newly created Ambridge industries, and today only the two houses on the eastern corners remain from the Harmony Society era.

Ambridge, Pennsylvania · United States