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The county is part of the Southwest Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] Formed from, successively, Lancaster, Northumberland, and later Bedford counties, Westmoreland County was founded on February 26, 1773, and was the first county in the colony of Pennsylvania whose entire territorial boundary was located west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Loyalhanna Township is a township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census , the township's total population was 2,093. [ 2 ]
The office of the Pennsylvania State Constable is a municipally elected, sworn Law Enforcement Officer [4] throughout the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [5]Pennsylvania State Constables are elected in each borough, township, and city ward in the state—except in Philadelphia (although constables may still exercise authority in the City of Philadelphia) —and serve six-year terms.
Sep. 15—A popular gun safety class geared toward women held by the Westmoreland County Sheriff's Department is returning for one day only. Sheriff James Albert said because of less available ...
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The village of Hannastown was laid out and originally settled in 1768–1769. It consisted of thirty log houses, two taverns, and a garrison palisaded fort, and was the site of the first English court administering justice west of the Alleghenies between 1773 and 1787.
During the Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911, the Pennsylvania State Police worked with the Coal and Iron Police to suppress the strike. Coal and Iron Police served as enforcers on company property during the workday, and state police harassed and surveilled the workers outside of company property and time.
Murrysville is located at (40.434828, -79.656724 It is roughly 20 miles east of Pittsburgh on U.S. Route 22, [10] just east of the county line that separates Westmoreland and Allegheny counties.