Brownsville

Brownsville is a borough in , 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.
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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.

Church
Photo: Ikcerog, Public domain.
The Historic Church of St. Peter is a Roman church in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in the Diocese of Greensburg. The Historic Church of St. Peter also has a partner parish in Grindstone, Pennsylvania named St.

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.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a former important transportation nexus and a present-day borough in , United States, and part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. is an outlier community of – a hamlet-sized neighborhood with more housing acreage than West Brownsville proper.

Hamlet
is a populated place in the , United States. It is a coal patch town, located near the former Vesta No. 6 Mine. is situated 2½ miles west of Brownsville.

Brownsville

Latitude
40.02369° or 40° 1′ 25″ north
Longitude
-79.88394° or 79° 53′ 2″ west
Population
2,190
Elevation
797 feet (243 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US BV8
Open location code
87G224F8+FC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158244289
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5181946
Wiki­data ID
Q1132976
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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”
  • Norwegian: “Brownsville”
  • Portuguese: “Brownsville”
  • Russian: “Браунсвил”
  • 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”
  • Urdu: “براؤنز ول، پنسلوانیا”
  • Uzbek: “Brownsville”
  • Uzbek: “Броwнсвилле”
  • Vietnamese: “Brownsville, Pennsylvania”
  • Vietnamese: “Brownsville”
  • Volapük: “Brownsville”
  • Welsh: “Brownsville, Pennsylvania”
  • Welsh: “Brownsville”

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