Braddock, Pennsylvania

Braddock is a borough located in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, ten miles (16 km) above the mouth of the Monongahela river. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 2,912. The town is named for General Edward Braddock (1695-1755). The Braddock Expedition, particularly his infamous crossing of the Monongahela River on July 9, 1755 at this place lead to his own fatal wounding and a sound defeat of his British troops who had been moving against the French at Fort Duquesne.

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Pittsburgh - Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - Monongahela - 2000 - Edward Braddock - Braddock Expedition - British - French - Fort Duquesne

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Braddock was probably first settled about 1795. It was incorporated in 1867. The town and its industrial economy began in 1873 when Andrew Carnegie founded there The J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works. This historic steel mill remains a part of the United States Steel Corporation.

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1795 - 1867 - Andrew Carnegie - J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works - Steel mill - United States Steel Corporation

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The early population figures were these: 1890, 8,561; 1900, 15,654; 1910, 19,357; 1920, 20, 879; 1940, 18,326. Braddock lost its importance with the decline of the steel-making industry in the US. The skilled workforce that is needed to produce steel has almost completely disappeared into oblivion. Petty crime became common after 1970. In 2000, it was a rotting, decaying place with nowhere to go but up.

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1890 - 1900 - 1910 - 1920 - 1940 - US - 1970 - 2000

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:Stabbing death, September 29, 2005

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