Richland Township, Allegheny County, PA. A community of over 9000 people located in Northern Allegheny County, 18 miles from downtown Pittsburgh.
It was about 1800 when John Crawford built his log cabin here in what was then Pine Township. John owned 403 acres, 88 perches of ground. His homestead was the first human habitation for miles around. It was not elaborate, this first house. The logs were notched, hoisted to form walls and the cracks stuffed with mud, stones and sticks. John Crawford's bed was crude, a platform built on forked...