A Secret hidden Tank Farm in Beaver County ? Yes during WWII to hide it from the Nazis

Legend say there was a hidden tank farm in beaver county tanks you say like Sherman Fighting Tanks?
No not those kind of tanks but Fuel tanks for Gasoline and Aviation Fuel .

Worried first of all about sabotage but mostly aerial bombardment  The Federal government put a large group of 6 tanks underground where they could not be easily found in Potter twp enough to hold 10 million gallons as a strategic holding point for the East Coast.

1 of 6 tanks  removed

 http://www.pottertwp-pa.gov/?page_id=700

 http://triblive.com/home/2453605-74/tanks-fuel-site-underground-corps-gaines-matsco-beaver-buried-county

But after 70+ years of sitting there and the environmental hazard they pose it was time to unveil them and remove them and reclaim the ground  for use as a park 

With all the factory's  and mills in the region this was the perfect place to keep strategic reserves 

There was also at one time in Elizabeth Pa. area a strategic storage of minerals for the mills as well. but it was all above ground . 

 

The strange looking basement starter homes some where finished but many never where

Back in the 50's and 60's many people set out to build their dream homes but economics dictated how long it would take to live the dream this resulted in many basement homes where the basement of the home was installed and  roof put over it often flat some times with a peak as in picture below At time it was kind of cool as they looked like mini bomb shelters .

 Then a weird looking door installed on top which lead into the basement . Ideally once the home owners had enough funds they would then Finnish the home up top in some cases it took 20 +years and in others it was never completed.
Such building codes today would never allow such homes but at one time they could be found all over rural Western Pa  ,Ohio and West Virginia.
But as you travel the back roads you can still find one on occasion. Like the one below in Westmoreland County near Latrobe

The fun tradition of bringing your Tractor to School on the last day of School

at least 2 of the more out in the country  school districts in our area have a neat tradition of allowing students to bring there tractors to school either on last day of school 
one of the first in the area to do it was the Freedom Area School District  and the Yough High School
 its a fun tradition of course liberal ass holes worried about safety stopped Freedom High School from doing it

https://www.ellwoodcityledger.com/news/local_news/the-end-of-a-tractor-tradition/article_73a1671c-f7c5-511a-98e9-925a7728aa83.htm    

A fun tradition no more because a couple pansies see it as an insult that tractors show up in a highbrow school district now that city folk have moved to the country and ruined things. You know what country folks where there first not you so they make the rules not you. 

However the tradition was continued by the Yough High school this year .

 and fun as ever. 

http://www.wtae.com/article/tractor-day-students-drive-tractors-to-yough-high-school/9938965

Of course it goes with out saying this practice goes on in other states and is even encouraged in farm country but like anything once the liberal ass pansies have their ways it will be no more hopefully it will be revived next year in Freedom