Happy birthday, Lawrence Park. Town that GE built is 100 years old

Happy birthday, Lawrence Park. Town that GE built is 100 years old

Move over, America 250. Lawrence Park Township has its own landmark anniversary this year. The town that the General Electric Company built beginning in 1911 became Lawrence Park Township in 1926. It originally had been part of Millcreek. Special events, including a July 4 parade and summer productions of “Romeo and Juliet” in the context of the town’s early days, are planned in the yearlong Lawrence Park centennial celebration. Wabtec, the comp…