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Uniontown is located slightly west of the center of Fayette County at 39°54'0" North, 79°43'28" West (39.900040, −79.724478). [18] It is located 12 miles (19 km) north of the West Virginia state line. Looking East into Uniontown, with Chestnut Ridge in the distance and snow on the ground
The Columbia Rolling Mill, an iron and steel works, operated in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, from 1887 to 1895. In 1895 it was sold to Andrew Carnegie , who moved the mill to Homestead, Pennsylvania . The mill was Uniontown's largest industry in the early 1890s.
In 1972, the closure of Page Steel and Wire Company was a major setback to the city. A far greater blow to Monessen occurred when its largest employer, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, closed nearly all its Monessen operations in 1986. [7] The company's rail mill did not close until March 1987. [7]
Eat'n Park opened a new retro-themed dining experience, called The Park Classic Diner in 1999. Both the interior of the restaurant and the construction of the building was intended to mimic a 1950s diner. The concept closed in 2009 after only opening three restaurants with this concept. [29]
In 1897, his National Tin Plate Company was the first employer in the newly created community of Monessen, Pennsylvania. [2] The town's main street was named "Donner Avenue" in his honor. Donner then sold his tin plate company and used the proceeds to create Union Steel Company (later American Steel and Wire Company ), in the new community of ...
The Mon–Fayette Expressway interchanges with US 119 in the Oliver part of the township, just north of Uniontown; the expressway leads northwest to Centerville and southwest to Morgantown. The eastern half of Union Township occupies the hilltops and western slope of Chestnut Ridge , with the highest elevation of 2,670 feet (810 m) located near ...
Uniontown Mall is a regional enclosed shopping mall in South Union Township, Pennsylvania, just outside the city of Uniontown. The anchor stores are JCPenney , and Crossfit Uniontown. There are four vacant anchor stores that were once The Bon-Ton , Sears and Burlington Coat Factory , as well as AMC Theatres , which departed abruptly in mid 2021.
Uniontown, the Fayette County seat, is 17 miles (27 km) to the southeast via PA 201 and PA 51. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.25 square miles (0.66 km 2), of which 0.19 square miles (0.50 km 2) is land and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km 2), or 24.33%, is water. [7]