
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of Pittsburgh, PA featured a large article on Woodland Ridge, page 60, Saturday, September 16, 1989, entitled: “You asked for it, Ryan did it.” For more than 25 years (1989) Woodland Ridge has hosted the annual “Light Up Night” for the whole community when residents encourage visitors to drive through their neighborhood looking at lights and displays. The plan offers many year-around community activities (Christmas Light-up Night, Halloween party, summer picnic, spring yard sale, etc.). It is a safe, friendly, family-oriented development with only one entrance (no through traffic). Wooodland Ridge: is situated off of Thorn Run Road in Moon Township and has 150+ homes. Village of Amesbury: is a Moon Township community featuring 105 rental patio homes and town houses, offering a quiet and serene wooded area surrounding the properties. Staunton Heights: is located off University Boulevard and Stoops Ferry Road, featuring luxury riverfront brick townhouses in an upscale neighborhood overlooking the Ohio River. The Mooncrest Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places of September 18, 2013. A Pennsylvania Historical Marker was dedicated on April 15, 2004, on Mooncrest Drive, located at Old Thorn Run Road. Air Force after 1945, homes were sold to private investors in the mid-1950s. Mooncrest residents produced armor plates and munitions and ships at the nearby Dravo Corp. Mooncrest: In 1943, the federal government designed and built a housing plan known as Mooncrest for defense workers.

Heldon Estates: off Shafer Road, a 32-acre Spring Run site, was formerly known as part of Bickerstaff Farms.

Thank you again to Jeffrey Snedden, History Reporter for the Beaver County Times for this great article that appeared in the Sunday edition of the newspaper, April 12, 2015.
