254 Allegheny County

©2011  27"x 31"  Women and girls from western Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, where I was born and raised, played an important part in the Civil War.  Many worked in a local factory making bullet cartridges to supply the troops.  Unfortunately, a tragedy known as the Allegheny Arsenal Explosion killed almost 80 women on the Northern Home Front.  The pattern includes easy directions for making the 3" star blocks.