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Old 08-17-2016, 02:34 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Morningside)
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Unlike many (everyone?) in this forum, I've actually been to Aleppo Township. One of my wife's friends used to own a townhouse there in the Sewickley Heights Manor complex. Visiting her once was the extent of my experience with the area however. Maybe others will have something more to say.
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Old 08-17-2016, 02:42 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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I've never heard of it. I'm going to assume it's near Mt. Lebanon because the OG Aleppo is near Lebanon.
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Old 08-17-2016, 02:45 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Aleppo Township is sort of like the suburban answer to Pittsburgh's Duck Hollow, it seems. Nobody ever really has any reason to go there specifically, and it's not really along the way to access anywhere else as a through-way, either. It seems like it's an enigma, and its residents like it that way.
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Old 08-17-2016, 02:50 PM
 
Location: southwestern PA
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DH and I will be visiting the Masonic Village there in the near future.
I am scouting options for my mom and stepdad... and of course taking notes for when we need senior living!

http://masonicvillages.org/sewickley/
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Old 08-17-2016, 02:57 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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DH and I will be visiting the Masonic Village there in the near future.
I am scouting options for my mom and stepdad... and of course taking notes for when we need senior living!

Enjoy Retirement Living in Sewickley, PA - Masonic Villages of Pennsylvania
Ah! That explains it! I looked up Aleppo Township on Wikipedia and saw the huge jump in population between 2000 and 2010. Looks like ~45% of residents of the township live in that retirement community alone!
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Old 08-17-2016, 02:59 PM
 
Location: southwestern PA
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Looks like a gorgeous facility with great amenities!
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Old 08-17-2016, 05:31 PM
 
Location: Etna, PA
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Looks like a gorgeous facility with great amenities!
I'm from Elizabethtown, where the Masons also have a large retirement community. Etown at least has an absolutely beautiful campus - grounds, buildings, they have their own farms and orchards, great place to pick up Lancaster County specialties like apple butter, etc.


The name strikes me as curious though - I'd never heard of Aleppo until it became one of the circles of Hell during Syria's civil war.

Here's some info from Wiki:
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Aleppo Township was incorporated as a township on June 7, 1876, from the western section of Kilbuck Township. It was part of the Depreciation Lands reserved for Revolutionary War veterans. Sparse settlement occurred in the 1800s, and Aleppo Township lost land that formed the boroughs of Sewickley Heights, Glenfield, and Haysville.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleppo...,_Pennsylvania
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Old 08-17-2016, 09:04 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Been through Aleppo many times, nothing to really talk about. The lenzners had a nice farm with an airstrip that is now a 55+ community. That is all I really have to add.
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Old 08-18-2016, 07:09 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Morningside)
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Ah! That explains it! I looked up Aleppo Township on Wikipedia and saw the huge jump in population between 2000 and 2010. Looks like ~45% of residents of the township live in that retirement community alone!
Between that and the township complex I mentioned (built in the 70s, when the population grew by 43%), there probably aren't more than 500 people living in the township now.

It actually was fairly nice for a 1970s townhouse development. Parking was integrated into the units, and put behind where feasible with the road pattern, so the units don't directly face out on a large parking crater. Much more the child of Chatham Village than anything, although fake Tudor styles nauseate me.
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Old 08-18-2016, 07:32 AM
 
Location: southwestern PA
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Between that and the township complex I mentioned (built in the 70s, when the population grew by 43%), there probably aren't more than 500 people living in the township now.
Just over 1900 according to the 2010 census.
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