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Allegheny County
South Park Township

Broughton

Broughton is an unincorporated community in , United States. Originally named Curry after Joseph Curry, a frontier physician and coroner of Allegheny County in 1810, it was renamed Broughton, to avoid confusion with the nearby Curry Hollow and the Curry in .
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  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: unincorporated community in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
  • Also known as: “Broughton, PA” and “Broughton, Pennsylvania”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oliver Miller Homestead and Hundred Acres Manor Haunted House.

Historic building
Photo: Leepaxton, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , site of the James Miller House, is a public museum that commemorates pioneer settlers of . It is located in 's 10 miles south of downtown Pittsburgh in .

is a haunted attraction in the of , . It opened in 2003 on the former location of an earlier haunt called Phantoms in The Park.

Park
Photo: Leepaxton, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a 2,013-acre network of nine parks.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Curry and Bruceton.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , later renamed Broughton.

Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is an suburban area of within . While not an incorporated entity itself, its western half is part of and its eastern half is part of .

Hamlet
is a neighborhood in the borough of in , , United States. It was the residence of miners of the Pittsburgh Terminal Railroad and Coal Company #4 Mine, which had a racially integrated workforce, unusual in that era.

Broughton

Latitude
40.3259° or 40° 19′ 33″ north
Longitude
-79.98644° or 79° 59′ 11″ west
Elevation
978 feet (298 metres)
Open location code
87G282G7+9C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158634060
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5181837
Wiki­data ID
Q4975797
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Japanese—“Broughton” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “布洛頓”
  • French: “Broughton”
  • Irish: “Broughton”
  • Japanese: “ブロートン”

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Highlights include Sunrise Baptist Church and VFW Post 1940.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Broughton”. Photo: Albright.kevin.s, CC BY-SA 3.0.