Neville Island is an industrial shit hole of an island on one side and a really nice residential area on the other.
at one time it was all very fertile farm land and the asparagus grown on island was featured on the menu of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York but then with demand for steel and other industrial products needed for WWI 1/2 of neville Island was seized by the government for production then horn swaggered by US Steel. after the war and not returned to the community.
and its never been the same since .
There have been all kinds of story's about the island one of them of the island being used as a body disposal site for the McKeesrocks Mob and body's do wash up along the river bank occasionally but with all the digging being done down there you do not hear of any body's being found and besides the island was 24 / 7 with activity and many plants had guards patrolling as well if they closed on weekend. I know I spent many days on that island at several places working Guard shifts
There is a small burial yard on the island right in the middle of all the industry.
an explosion at a rendering plant when they brought an Elephant that died at the Pittsburgh Zoo down to be rendered.
This is a known fact that they disposed of Zoo animals at this on the plant on Neville Island and Herrs Island and that's where the story gets interesting .
The explosion which did happen and severely damaged the plant in 1963 but it was a sewage pump station which exploded and damaged the rendering plant.
Not the elephant which blew the plant up but that's what locals will tell you.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19630305&id=TSkNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KGwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7106,541139
at one time it was all very fertile farm land and the asparagus grown on island was featured on the menu of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York but then with demand for steel and other industrial products needed for WWI 1/2 of neville Island was seized by the government for production then horn swaggered by US Steel. after the war and not returned to the community.
and its never been the same since .
There have been all kinds of story's about the island one of them of the island being used as a body disposal site for the McKeesrocks Mob and body's do wash up along the river bank occasionally but with all the digging being done down there you do not hear of any body's being found and besides the island was 24 / 7 with activity and many plants had guards patrolling as well if they closed on weekend. I know I spent many days on that island at several places working Guard shifts
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| Another dusty dirty day on the island |
There is a small burial yard on the island right in the middle of all the industry.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19750611&id=4hQcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DFYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5890,5926927
There was also all kinds of hazardous chemicals dumped by Hillman Chemical that was found while a park was being built
However there has been this persistent story ofThere was also all kinds of hazardous chemicals dumped by Hillman Chemical that was found while a park was being built
an explosion at a rendering plant when they brought an Elephant that died at the Pittsburgh Zoo down to be rendered.
This is a known fact that they disposed of Zoo animals at this on the plant on Neville Island and Herrs Island and that's where the story gets interesting .
The explosion which did happen and severely damaged the plant in 1963 but it was a sewage pump station which exploded and damaged the rendering plant.
Not the elephant which blew the plant up but that's what locals will tell you.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19630305&id=TSkNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KGwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7106,541139
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| remains of old rendering plant building |
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| old rendering plant behind new garages |
So the story has truth to it just not all the facts right .But its still funny as hell.
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