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Mount Pleasant is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It stands 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. As of the 2020 census, the borough's population was 4,245. The Borough of Mount Pleasant, consisting of the town area, should not be confused with Mount Pleasant Township, which is an entirely separate ...
Helltown (actually meaning "town of the clear water") was situated a mile below Newville, on the Clear Fork of the Mohican, in what is known as the Darling settlement. After the murder of the Moravian Indians at Gnadenhutten in 1782, Helltown was abandoned and a new settlement (Greentown) was established on the Black Fork, where a better ...
Hellertown is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States.Its population was 6,131 at the 2020 census. Hellertown is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of 2020.
Roughly along Main, S. Church, Eagle, Walnut and College Sts., Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania Coordinates 40°08′54″N 79°32′41″W / 40.14833°N 79.54472°W / 40.14833; -79
c. 1932, the H. C. Frick Coke Company closed and abandoned the Calumet Mine, located in nearby Calumet and sent a number of the miners to the Standard Shaft Mine near Mount Pleasant, and laid off the rest of the coal miners, leaving them to fend for themselves, with no compensation or means of support. [1]
Laborers at Morewood Works, c.1890. In the late 1800s, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania was a major center for the coal, coke, and steel industries. Coke, a fuel derived from coal, was essential for iron smelting, which in turn supported the booming steel industry.
Mount Pleasant is a second-class township in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The township's population was 1,357 at the time of the 2010 United States Census . [ 7 ]
The Mount Pleasant Armory was an historic National Guard armory that was located in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, [ 1 ] it was demolished in 1996.