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DAISYTOWN, PA 15427

Genealogy (often misspelled geneology) and family history research in the area of Little Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania from 1700 to present.  

Take 70 East to the Centerville Exit, get on Route 481 off of I-70.  Go left at "Y" and go towards Centerville Clinic in Centerville along Rt. 40.  Going up a large hill, at Grace Methodist Church on right, and past Garwood Baptist Church on right, go to left at top of hill - start down into the country area and keep following the road into Daisytown...

Daisytown is located at Latitude: 40.0651  Longitude: -79.9733

I saw a story in which it was said that when Daisytown was being laid out, one of the men commented about how pretty the daisies were there, and hence, the name Daisytown.  I don't know how accurate the story is though.

Daisytown in West Pike Run Township, Washington Co, PA, between California PA and Richeyville PA, was built in 1906 for Vesta Coal Company, owned by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.  Vesta No. 4 mine, once the largest bituminous coal mine in the world, ran under Daisytown and Richeyville.  The coal company had built housing for the miners, including some single-story, two-family dwellings.  See Coal Campus for pictures.  Miners were routinely recruited from overseas through newspaper advertisements looking for experienced miners.  The 2000 United States Census shows ancestries of German (53.7%), Irish (12.1%), Slovak (10.1%), Polish (9.3%), Italian (7.6%), Welsh (5.9%).  As of 2000, this small borough 356 people in 139 households.  The miners survived many strikes at the mine, the worst being the 1927 strike which helped form union labor laws.*

Today, there is a relatively new housing development there called Crescent Heights which sits up on a hill, and a good amount of houses remain from the Crescent Mine.  California High School is just over the hill from the newer houses.  Walkertown PA is close by.  Plum Run Creek runs through this area, and there are two reservoirs nearby, Pond F and Ellsworth Reservoir.

From a Tribune-Review article published Sunday, July 11, 2004, Mary Elaine Lozosky became the town's historian and has published 2 books.  First book, A Daisy of a Town: A Pictorial History of Daisytown, Pennsylvania," was an offshoot of her own genealogy research...  Second book, "Daisies, Dignity, and Daily Life: A Pictorial History of Daisytown, Pennsylvania" -- contains images of the ordinary happenings in earlier days such as berry picking, fishing, picnics, funerals and weddings.  "After the first book in 2003 and a Focus magazine Community in Profile in the Tribune-Review in February more people came forward with more old photos."

 * It should be remembered that the pioneering efforts toward unionization in coal mines started in Washington County Pennsylvania.  

Map showing Daisytown, Walkertown and Sharretown in Washington County, PA

Donald Everett LeJohn 

Cemetery: Saint Clements Cemetery

Note: There is also a Daisytown in Cambria County, shown on various websites.

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