Editing Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
In the 1750s, the [[Seneca Indians]] lived in the region. Until the late 18th century, [[indigenous peoples of the Americas|American Indian]] tribes hunted and fished in the general Fox Chapel area. [[Virginia]] and [[Pennsylvania]] both claimed the territory. The dispute was not resolved until after the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ohara.pa.us/history.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426122213/http://www.ohara.pa.us/history.htm | archive-date=2007-04-26 | title=Township of O'Hara - Community News & Info }}</ref> Today, less than 1% of its population is [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=FOX CHAPEL DISTRICT ASSOCIATION HISTORY |url=http://www.foxchapeldistrictassociation.org/history.htm |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309164324/http://www.foxchapeldistrictassociation.org/history.htm |archive-date=2005-03-09 |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=Fox Chapel District Association}}</ref>

The first white settler in the area was James Powers, who arrived around 1790.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Borough of Fox Chapel |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/downloads/profile-foxchapel.htm |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629035457/https://www.post-gazette.com/downloads/profile-foxchapel.htm |archive-date=2011-06-29 |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=Post Gazette}}</ref> The first schoolhouse was on Squaw Run, where it stood in 1806. It was a [[log house]]. A church was organized in 1818 on Kittanning Road, on a branch of Pine Creek.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of Fox Chapel |url=http://www.foxchapeldistrictassociation.org/history.aspx |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920032852/http://www.foxchapeldistrictassociation.org/history.aspx |archive-date=2013-09-20 |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=Fox Chapel District Association}}</ref> The [[Pittsburgh Field Club]], which was established in 1882, moved to present-day Fox Chapel in 1915, and the Fox Chapel Golf Club opened in 1919. [[Shady Side Academy]] opened its senior school on property that was formerly two large farms, a gift from prominent Pittsburgh industrialist Wallace H. Rowe, in 1922. A nearby private estate, built in 1928 by steel industrialist James E. Lewis, became the academy's standalone middle school campus in 1958.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fox-chapel.pa.us/home_history.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927070341/http://www.fox-chapel.pa.us/home_history.htm | archive-date=2006-09-27 | title=Fox Chapel Borough - History }}</ref>