Last year a friend texted about the town:
I was up along the Allegheny River at the historic little town of Foxburg recently with family. It's located where the Clarion River enters the Allegheny. Foxburg is an anomaly in terms of Western Pennsylvania river towns. If you use your imagination---and this is quite a stretch---what remains can seem like a rural English village outlying but clustered near to the stately home of a titled aristocrat. It was founded by the Fox family of Philadelphia, who were the descendants of George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends. They had a sort of baronial estate and mansion there on the 7,000 acres or so they once owned. There's a notable Victorian-Gothic Episcopal church they commissioned (at some point, they apparently switched religions) and also a public library and music hall. A wealthy doctor purchased the mansion and grounds maybe 25 years ago and restored it along with commissioning some additions. He's responsible for the revival of the village, which includes the Allegheny Grille and Foxburg Inn. There's an art gallery in the Victorian former Fox-family offices now; a bistro in an erstwhile bank, a winery, etc. The rails-to-trails biking and all the aqua opportunities on the river---kayaking, etc.---may keep Foxburg going, although I'm sure the pandemic has not been kind to businesses this year. Among the reasons I'm thinking of you: There used to be a lovely hotel along the river---the Silver Fox Inn---which burned down in the 1960s. It had a somewhat notable summer-theater company there: the Silver Fox Playhouse. After the demise of the Inn, the company moved to an old barn and continued on for several more decades. Here are a few pages from an old program. One of the actors whose names I recognized from a 1957 production of The Chalk Garden is Jay Dantry. Jay (now deceased) was quite a colorful character in Pittsburgh, the longtime proprietor of the legendary Jay's Book Stall in Oakland.