Carnegie Hero Fund Commission

Carnegie Hero Fund Commission is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Springdale, Allegheny County, dedicated 1995.

301 Pittsburgh St. (SR 1001, old PA 28), Springdale

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Established April 15, 1904, by Andrew Carnegie. The Pittsburgh-based foundation awards the Carnegie Medal in the U.S. and Canada to persons who risk their lives to save others. Heroic acts that followed the January 25, 1904, explosion in the nearby Harwick Mine inspired Carnegie, who also founded ten similar funds in Europe. Many of the explosion's 181 victims are buried in St. Mark's Cemetery just south of here.

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1872 · Allegheny, Washington, Greene counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Westmoreland, Fayette counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1908 · New Kensington, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1910 · New Kensington, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Allegheny, Washington, Greene counties, 1872, covering the location of Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Allegheny, Washington, Greene counties, 1872, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Carnegie Hero Fund Commission

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