The Overbrook Trolley Line was a set of railroad tracks that stretched between South Hills Junction and Castle Shannon.

Carrick and all of South Pittsburgh were built on coal mining that kept homes warm and fed Pittsburgh industry. The legacy of all those mines remains with us today.

Many older Carrick houses, mansions and commercial buildings were built with bricks manufactured in the area.

The Point View Hotel, which for years was an historic landmark on Brownsville Road in Brentwood, was built as early as the 1820s or possibly earlier. If it was still around today, the inn would be about two centuries years old.

Homes over an underground coal mine that closed nearly a century ago were damaged in Mt Oliver Borough, PA in July, 2013 when the abandoned mine subsided.

For more than one hundred years, St Norbert’s Roman Catholic Church was part of the fabric of Overbrook, Pittsburgh, PA.

CoGo’s – previously Stop-N-Go – fueled the cars & bellies of Pittsburghers for more than half a century.

Streets became river rapids when a 24-inch water main burst on East Agnew Avenue near Beck Run Road in Carrick, Pittsburgh, PA early Friday morning, September 20, 2019. Water poured from the broken main & rushed down the street for hours. The flood made a waterfall over a ravine behind homes on East Agnew Avenue. The deluge damaged houses, streets & vehicles in a way that isn’t often seen from water main breaks.

Pittsburgh Railways was the mass transit system in Pittsburgh, PA during the first half of the 1900s. It operated streetcars.

Technology, and changes in how people live and shop, made the dairy business innovate again and again during the 100 years that Colteryahn Dairy operated out of Carrick.

A 30-inch water main on Homehurst Avenue in Overbrook, Pittsburgh, PA burst in 2015, opening a sinkhole that swallowed a truck and a trailer. Water from the massive break rushed down a hill, flooded homes, scattered personal items and knocked one residence off its foundation. No one was reported injured.

It started in a exchange of words and it turned deadly. The year was 2015.

The former Carrick Municipal Building is a two-story stone and brick structure. It is 29 feet wide. It was a firehouse for decades. Its architecture sets it apart an historic Pittsburgh landmark.