Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA
Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA is a city and its address is Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania USA, located at latitude 40.304461, longitude -79.544511.
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Greensburg is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
county seat of Westmoreland County,
The city is named after Nathanael Greene, a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.
After the end of the Revolutionary War, an inn was built along a wagon trail that stretched from Philadelphia west over the Appalachian Mountains to Fort Pitt,{ now Pittsburgh}. A tiny settlement known as Newtown grew around the inn, today the center of Greensburg's Business District at the intersection of Pittsburgh and Main Streets. the wagon trail became Penn Avenue.
