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Brownsville is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, first settled in 1785 as the site of a trading post a few years after the defeat of the Iroquois enabled a resumption of westward migration after the Revolutionary War.
Brownsville is an unincorporated community located in western Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located at the intersection of Brownsville and Heffner Roads. A very small portion of the village extends into North Heidelberg Township.
Brownsville Township is a township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 536 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] a decline from the figure of 683 tabulated in 2010. [ 3 ] It is served by the Brownsville School District.
Bowman's Castle, also known as Nemacolin Castle, was built in present-day Brownsville, Pennsylvania, at the western terminus of the Nemacolin's Trail on the east bank of the Monongahela River. It was built around the original trading post, which was built near the site of Fort Burd , the latter built by British colonists during the French and ...
West Brownsville is a former important transportation nexus and a present-day borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States and part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
Brownsville Northside Historic District is a national historic district located adjacent to the Brownsville Commercial Historic District at Brownsville, Pennsylvania.The district includes 188 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites in a neighborhood of Brownsville.
The Thomas H. Thompson House, also known as Wayside Manor, is an historic, American home that is located in Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1]
Thomas Brown, (1738 – March 8, 1797) [1] was an American colonial era husbandman, businessman, and land speculator. Along with his brother Basil, [2] he acquired the bulk of the (Brownsville) lands towards the end of the American Revolution from Thomas Cresap [notes 1] (Cresap's War, Lord Dunmore's War), early enough to sell plots to Jacob Bowman in 1780 [3] and Jacob Yoder [4] who ...