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Place 05 1898–1950 records
Patton
Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Miles MacNamara’s steam-and-clay story connects a 1917 newspaper profile, a Sanborn factory map and his 1950 obituary with the Patton Clay Manufacturing Company. Father Edwin Pierron’s parish story brings in St. Mary’s, the school, and the streets recorded by Sanborn.
On the mapTown context for the industrial records; this pin does not mark a family residence.
About this map and its geography
These are settings from the published films and person records. A pin can represent a town, island, installation or wider region; each place explains its scope. The stories belong to different people and periods.
Made with Natural Earth, 1:110m land and 1:50m Canary Island outlines. Public-domain coastline data, projected and rounded for this self-contained locator. The Canary Islands use finer 1:50m outlines. Coastlines provide modern geographic context; no political boundaries are drawn. Public-domain terms.
The Places in Their Time collection provides the archive’s separate queue for deeper historical place contexts.