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1. Bell Farm and Moon Township
2. Bell Family and Farm

1. Bell Farm (owner was John A. Bell from Carnegie)
   • Heinleins sold their farms to John A. Bell in the early (1920’s), who built a major commercial dairy farm on his 1,900 acres.
   • Moon Township was farmland. Among the farms in the township was the Bell Farm, which was sold to the Air Force and eventually became the site of the airport terminal and runways that opened in 1952 (said by Carl Griffith, realtor and chairman of the township’s Architectural Review Board and Earl Edwards, president of the Old Moon Township Historical Society on December 18, 2013).
   • (April 20, 1942) Following an auction sale of prize dairy herds, bulldozers began leveling an 1100-acre tract of the old Bell farm in Moon Township for a $3,000,000 defense airport.
2. Bell Farm was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Reick and C. F. Nettrour
   Milk Man, The National Dairy Empire of Edward E. Rieck by Bradley Fisher, April 23, 2009
   • In 1925, along with employee Charles F. Nettrour, Rieck bought the dairy farm of his dreams, a picture perfect 110 acre tract of rolling hills and white wooden barns owned by John Bell of Moon Township. (page 11)
   • (footnote 38, page 17) Paul Nettrour Jr., grandson of Charles Nettrour, recalls that Rieck and Nettrour originally bought Bell farm as partners. When the depression hit, Rieck bought out Nettrour’s share.
   • (footnote 46, page 17) Old Bell Farm Becomes an Airport, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (daily magazine) April 21, 1942
3. When Bell farm purchased Heinlein farms, where were they located?
   • Where were the farms in relationship to the runways to Greater Pittsburgh Airport, which was demolished and a new Pittsburgh International Airport built in 1992?
   • Where were the farms in relationship to Scally’s Golf?
   • Where were the farms in relationship to Resurrection Cemetery?