Scottdale, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA is a city and its address is Scottdale, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania USA 15683, located at latitude 40.102410, longitude -79.591078.
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Scottdale is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania ... Early in the twentieth century, Scottdale was the center of the Frick coke interests.
the area witnessed an influx of Scotch-Irish immigrants in the late 1770s. In the mid-1800s, the present-day townsite was the location of a distillery and flour mill known as Fountain Mills.[1]
The Pennsylvania Railroad and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad each built branch lines through the community in the early 1870s. With the coming of the railroads, the community’s economy shifted from agriculture to manufacturing and mining. Two brothers who were local farmers, Peter and Jacob Loucks, realized the impact the railroads could have on the area and laid out a small townsite consisting of 24 lots, which went on sale in 1872.
Scottdale was incorporated as a borough in February 5, 1874 and named in honor of Thomas Alexander Scott, who had been president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and served as Assistant Secretary of War during the Civil War.
Because Scottdale sits atop major coal deposits, the community flourished due to the surrounding coal mines, as well as ovens for converting coal into coke (fuel). The H. C. Frick Coke Company, controlled by Henry Clay Frick, was headquartered here. Scottdale’s factories in the early 1900s also produced iron pipe, tin, knives, steam engines, and caskets.
