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Bedner Estates The neighborhood known today as Bedner Estates can be traced back to the 18th century when the first settlers were claiming land in Upper St. Clair. Originally, this area was part of Daniel Carroll’s land patent, which he named “Carrolton.” Surveyed in April 1787 and warranted in October 1789, Carroll, like many of his neighbors, applied on a Virginia certificate. The colonies of Virginia and Pennsylvania disputed the ownership of Southwestern Pennsylvania in the decades preceding Carroll’s claim. Individuals applying for land in the area had to decide which colony, and later state, they should make their application to, based on which state they believed the land belonged to at the time. After Carroll, the property was owned by members of the Borland family, who built a Greek Revival style house sometime between 1839 and 1849 along what became Cook School Road. In a map from Hopkin’s 1876 Atlas of the County of Allegheny, J. Borland is listed as the owner of this farmland next to neighbors such as Moses Cook and several McMillan family members. 76
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Unlike Cook and McMillan, the Borland family name was not attached to either a school or road. Instead, it is the Bedner family who is associated with the property, now known as Bedner Estates. The Bedner family was the last owner of this farmland prior to the neighborhood’s construction. Bedner’s Farm started with the 1917 purchase of the property from Pittsburgh Coal Company by brothers Stephen and Walter Bedner. The next generation of Bedners continued to farm and expanded the family business to include Bedner’s Farm Market on Bower Hill Road in 1956. As of 2002, the 120-acre Bedner’s Farm was the last working farm in Upper St. Clair. Now, the area along Cook School Road is home to many Upper St. Clair families. n
—Article courtesy of Carolyn Jones Friedrich, historian, Historical Society of Upper St. Clair
