House of Refuge of Western Pennsylvania

Dates:

Established - April 22, 1850

Closed - 1968

Locations:

1st site - Jack's Run below Manchester (Allegheny City, 9th Ward)

2nd site - Market Street and Fourth Avenue - Union Bank Building (1878)

3rd site - Morganza (Washington County) (1876)

Also Known As:

Pennsylvania Reform School (1876)

Pennsylvania Training School (1912)

Morganza

Canonsburg Youth Development Center

Founder:

Sponsoring Agency:

Notes:

Morganza was named for George Morgan.

Hillman Library has annual reports: HV9105 .P41 A4

Location of Records:

Unknown

Sources:

PA Department Vertical Files (Youth Centers. Morganza, Canonsburg)

A Digest of the Acts of Assembly relating to, and the General Ordinances of the City of Pittsburgh from 1804 to...1886, pp. 161-162 **(r352 P67b8)**

1856 Pittsburgh and Allegheny City Directory

1878 Pittsburgh and Allegheny City Directory

History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, pp. 423-424 **(rF157 .A4 H6 1977x)**

20th Century History of the City of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania, p. 210 **(rqF157 .W3 M2 1993x)**