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The development of Fox Chapel Area from a quiet, detached farm community to bustling suburb can be clearly seen in the history of Aspinwall, Blawnox, Fox more Chapel, Indiana Township, O'Hara Township, and Sharpsburg. Cooper-Siegel Community Library is in a unique position to collect and digitize historical ephemera because this area does not contain a historical society (as of May 2024). The Library has accumulated and still does accumulate historical materials from the area--centennial brochures, church festival booklets, Friends of the Library publications, borough history booklets, and the like that, if not digitized and made available online, may disappear forever. This collection reflects the Library's collecting and digitizing efforts of history for this service area. less

The Fox Chapel Area High School's yearbook "Renard," published every year since 1961, is an essential window into the daily life and times of the six more municipalities in the school district. Before 1961 and for some time afterwards, other schools fulfilled education needs in the area, like the Aspinwall and Sharpsburg High Schools, as well as the Kerr School, the Blawnox Junior High School, and others. The availability of these older institutions' yearbooks are limited and are represented here to the best of Cooper-Siegel's abilities. These yearbooks offer a valuable visual record of local students and faculty for genealogical research. less