Brownsville
Brownsville is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, first settled in 1785 as the site of a trading post a few years after the defeat of the Iroquois enabled a resumption of westward migration after the American Revolutionary War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,190 residents
- Description: borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Bridgeport-subdivision”, “Brownsville, PA”, “Brownsville, Pennsylvania”, “Fort Burd”, and “Redstone Old Fort”
- Postal code: 15417
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Peter’s Church and Dunlap’s Creek Bridge.
St. Peter’s Church
Church
Photo: Ikcerog, Public domain.
The Historic Church of St. Peter is a Roman Catholic church in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in the Diocese of Greensburg. Peter also has a partner parish in Grindstone, Pennsylvania named St.
Dunlap’s Creek Bridge
Monument
Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.
Dunlap's Creek Bridge is the first arch bridge in the United States built of cast iron. It was designed by Richard Delafield and built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Brownsville and Blainsburg.
West Brownsville
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
West Brownsville is a former important transportation nexus and a present-day borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States and part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
Blainsburg
Hamlet
Blainsburg is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. Blainsburg is an outlier community of West Brownsville, Pennsylvania – a hamlet-sized neighborhood with more housing acreage than West Brownsville proper.
Denbo
Hamlet
Denbo is a populated place in the Centerville, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a coal patch town, located near the former Vesta No. 6 Mine. Denbo is situated 2½ miles west of Brownsville.
Brownsville
- Categories: borough of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Borough of Brownsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.02369° or 40° 1′ 25″ northLongitude
-79.88394° or 79° 53′ 2″ westPopulation
2,190Elevation
797 feet (243 metres)United Nations Location Code
US BV8Open location code
87G224F8+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 158244289OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Brownsville” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Brownsville”
- Catalan: “Brownsville”
- Cebuano: “Brownsville”
- Chechen: “Браунсвилл”
- Chinese: “Brownsville”
- Chinese: “布朗斯維爾”
- Czech: “Brownsville”
- Danish: “Brownsville”
- Dutch: “Brownsville”
- French: “Brownsville”
- German: “Brownsville”
- Gilaki: “برأؤنزویل (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “برأؤنزویل”
- Haitian: “Brownsville, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Brownsville”
- Hebrew: “בראוניסוויל”
- Hungarian: “Brownsville”
- Italian: “Brownsville”
- Japanese: “ブラウンズヴィル (ペンシルヴェニア州)”
- Japanese: “ブラウンズヴィル”
- Japanese: “ブラウンズビル (ペンシルベニア州)”
- Japanese: “ブラウンズビル”
- Ladin: “Brownsville”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Brownsville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brownsville”
- Portuguese: “Brownsville”
- Russian: “Браунсвилл”
- Serbian: “Браунсвил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Brownsville, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Brownsville”
- Slovenian: “Brownsville”
- Spanish: “Brownsville (Pensilvania)”
- Spanish: “Brownsville”
- Swedish: “Brownsville, Pennsylvania”
- Swedish: “Brownsville”
- Tatar: “Браунсвилл”
- Ukrainian: “Браунсвілл”
- Uzbek: “Brownsville”
- Uzbek: “Броwнсвилле”
- Vietnamese: “Brownsville, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Brownsville”
- Volapük: “Brownsville”
- Welsh: “Brownsville, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Brownsville”
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