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The newspaper started life in 1799 as The Farmer’s Register, founded by John M. Snowden with William McCorkle as editor.Snowden, a native of Philadelphia struggled with his business ventures and sold the paper to W. S. Graham in 1808 who renamed the paper to The Greensburg and Indiana Register and later The Westmoreland and Indiana Register and lastly to just The Register in 1812 to save ...
Location of Westmoreland County. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Westmoreland County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, located in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census , the population was 354,663. [ 1 ] The county seat is Greensburg and the most populous community is Hempfield Township . [ 2 ]
Nov. 27—Westmoreland commissioners have four weeks to make final tweaks to a 2024 budget that is not expected to raise taxes but could all but exhaust the county's surplus of funds.
New Kensington (known locally as New Ken) is a city that is located in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated along the Allegheny River, 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Pittsburgh. The population was 12,170 at the time of the 2020 census.
Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judges Christopher Feliciani, 64, of Hempfield, and Megan Bilik-DeFazio, 48, of North Huntingdon, were retained to the bench for new 10-year terms.
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.
Parts of Lycoming County Attached to Westmoreland County until 1806 and to Indiana County until 1830. Thomas Jefferson, third U.S. President 43,612: 657 sq mi (1,702 km 2) Juniata County: 067: Mifflintown: 1831: Parts of Mifflin County: Juniata River, itself named for the Iroquoian word Onayutta, meaning "Standing Stone" 23,243: 394 sq mi ...