Monessen, Pennsylvania

Monessen is a city located in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 8,669. In 1940, 20,257 people lived there. Steel-making was a prominent industry in Monessen, which was a Rust Belt borough in the "Mon valley" of southwestern Pennsylvania that became a third-class city in 1921. It is not a far piece from Charleroi and Donora, two similar places with similar histories.

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Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - 2000 - 1940 - Rust Belt - "Mon - Pennsylvania - Charleroi - Donora

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