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In 1999, the Turtle Creek Valley Council of Governments determined that operating and maintaining the facility placed too great a financial burden upon the boroughs of Wilmerding, Turtle Creek and East Pittsburgh. [23] Photos taken in 2013 indicate the floodgate facility is no longer being maintained.
Turtle Creek is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The population was 5,114 at the 2020 census. [3] George Westinghouse constructed a manufacturing plant nearby. Turtle Creek takes its name from a small stream that flows into the Monongahela River. [4]
George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, carries U.S. Route 30, the Lincoln Highway, over the Turtle Creek Valley near to where it joins the Monongahela River Valley east of Pittsburgh. The reinforced concrete open-spandrel deck arch bridge has a total length of 1,598 feet (487 m) comprising five spans. The longest ...
The Westinghouse Interworks Railway was a short line railroad that operated in the lower Turtle Creek valley east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.A subsidiary of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, [1] [2] [3] the railway used former Turtle Creek Valley Railroad tracks that Westinghouse rebuilt and extended [4] from Trafford through Wilmerding to East Pittsburgh along the right bank (northern ...
East Pittsburgh's school colors were green and white, and its athletic teams were called the Shamrocks. [citation needed] During the 1970–71 school year, the East Pittsburgh School District was merged, by court order, with the neighboring Turtle Creek School District for the following year.
Braddock's Field is a historic battlefield on the banks of the Monongahela River, at Braddock, Pennsylvania, near the junction of Turtle Creek, about nine miles southeast of the "Forks of the Ohio" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1755, the Battle of the Monongahela was fought on Braddock's Field, which ended the Braddock Expedition.
In 1742, John Fraser and his family established the area at the mouth of Turtle Creek as the first permanent English settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains. [6] George Washington visited the area in 1753–1754. It was the site of Braddock's Defeat on July 9, 1755. Braddock's first industrial facility, a barrel plant, opened in 1850. [6]
The Susquehanna River drainage basin. Susquehanna River. Deer Creek; Octoraro Creek. West Branch Octoraro Creek. Stewart Run; East Branch Octoraro Creek. Muddy Run; Conowingo Creek; Fishing Creek (Lancaster County)