Century

Century is a hamlet in Brownsville Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania. Century is situated nearby to the hamlet Knoxville, as well as near Hiller.

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. The Historic Church of St. 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 Brownsville and West Brownsville.

Brownsville

Town

Photo: Breakfastchief, Public domain.

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.

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. Blainsburg is situated 1½ miles north of Century.

Century

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Brownsville Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.00915° or 40° 0′ 33″ north

Longitude

-79.88519° or 79° 53′ 7″ west

Elevation

915 feet (279 metres)

Open location code

87G22457+MW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158510157

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

5183781

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