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| Vinegar Hollow | |
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| Long-axis direction | West-East |
| Geography | |
| Location | Allegheny County, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40°30′46″N80°05′10″W / 40.5129109°N 80.0859755°W /40.5129109; -80.0859755 |
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Vinegar Hollow is a wooded valley inKilbuck Township that abutsBen Avon,Ben Avon Heights, andEmsworth districts, withinAllegheny County, Pennsylvania.
The valley's name is of uncertain origin, but local historian, Darlene Phillips ofOhio Township, has reported several hearsay origins. One story is of amoonshine producer during the time of the region'sProhibition days, John Jacob Signor. Signor was known to local residents ofEmsworth as "Vinegar Jake." "Vinegar Jake" purportedly made moonshine in the hollow, which he and others referred to as his "vinegar." Another attribution holds that, somewhere in the area ofLowries Run or Plummer Avenue, there was a small operation that created an industrial grade vinegar. This purported business would have been operated in the early 20th century, at a time thatPittsburgh buildings were routinely coated in soot from coal processing.
The valley was once home to Hodgdon Lodge, a rustic cabin built out of telephone poles, sometime in the early 20th century by Ben Avon Boy Scout Troop No. 172.[1] The cabin was reported to be out of use by at least 1947.
