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Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Fayette County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Uniontown
Year Organized: 1783
Square Miles: 790 |
Court House: 61 East Main Street
County Courthouse
Uniontown, PA 15401-3514
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named in honor of the Marquis de la Fayette.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on September 26, 1783, from
part of Westmoreland County and named in honor of the Marquis de la Fayette. In
1825 Lafayette visited the county as Albert Gallatin's guest and addressed the
public in Brownsville. Uniontown, the county seat, was laid out about 1776 as
Beason's-town and later renamed in allusion to the Federal Union. It was
incorporated as a borough on April 4, 1796 and as a city on December 19, 1913.
Wendell Brown and Christopher Gist settled in the area around 1752. Washington's
Fort Necessity campaign occurred in 1754, and Braddock's army passed through the
next year. Indian raids continued until 1783. Brownsville developed from a
military post, Fort Burd. From 1818 to 1852 the National or Cumberland Road
brought prosperity, ending when the Pennsylvania Railroad connected with
Pittsburgh and bypassed Fayette. The first iron furnace was fired in 1789.
Brownsville was an early boat building center, and the glass industry originally
flourished in the county. The coke industry began with the first beehive oven in
1841. Connellsville coking coal had superior chemical qualities. Henry Clay
Frick's fortune began with coke in 1870. By the 1920s, beehive ovens were
obsolete and much of the coke manufacturing moved to the sites of the steel
mills, but beehives were revived in World War II. By 1950 the coal under the
county was gone, and severe unemployment and depression began. Farms cover 23
percent of the county's land today. Bituminous coal, mined entirely by surface
operations, is still produced.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Allison |
township |
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- Belle Vernon |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Brownsville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Bullskin |
township |
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- Connellsville |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Dawson |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Dunbar |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Everson |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Fairchance |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Farmington |
township |
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- Fayette City |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Georges |
township |
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- German |
township |
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- Henry Clay |
township |
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- Lower Tyrone |
township |
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- Markleysburg |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Masontown |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Menallen |
township |
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- New Salem |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Newell |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ohiopyle |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Oliver |
township |
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- Perryopolis |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Point Marion |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Redstone |
township |
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- Rostraver |
township |
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- Saltlick |
township |
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- Smithfield |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- South Connellsville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- South Union |
township |
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- Springhill |
township |
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- Stewart |
township |
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- Uniontown
(County
Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Upper Tyrone |
township |
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- Vanderbilt |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- West Brownsville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wharton |
township |
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- White |
township |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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