Pittsburgh Region
Allegheny County
Borough of Homestead

Homestead

Homestead is a borough in , United States, along the Monongahela River 7 miles southeast of downtown . The borough is known for the Homestead strike of 1892, an important event in the history of labor relations in the United States.
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  • Type: Village with 3,490 residents
  • Description: borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Also known as: “Homestead, PA” and “Homestead, Pennsylvania”
  • Postal code: 15120
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Homestead Grays Bridge and Carnegie Library of Homestead.

Bridge
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The , also known as the High Level Bridge, was built in 1936 and spans the Monongahela River between Homestead Borough and the southernmost tip of Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood.

Library
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The is a public library in founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1898. It is one of 2,509 Carnegie libraries worldwide, 1,689 of which were built in the United States.

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is a open air spanning the three boroughs of Homestead, , and near . The shopping mall sits on land once occupied by U.S. Steel's Homestead Steel Works plant, which closed in 1986.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Munhall and Whitaker.

Village
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is a borough in , United States, on the west bank of the Monongahela River. The population was 10,774 at the 2020 census.

Village
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is a borough in , United States, and is on the Monongahela River 3 miles upriver from . The population was 1,179 at the 2020 census.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is represented on Pittsburgh City Council by Barb Warwick. It is bordered by and on the north, and Glen Hazel on the east, and the Monongahela River on the south and west.

Homestead

Latitude
40.4059° or 40° 24′ 21″ north
Longitude
-79.912° or 79° 54′ 43″ west
Population
3,490
Elevation
787 feet (240 metres)
Open location code
87G2C34Q+96
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158518956
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5194067
Wiki­data ID
Q912465
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Homestead” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هومستد”
  • Basque: “Homestead”
  • Catalan: “Homestead”
  • Cebuano: “Homestead”
  • Chechen: “Гоумстед”
  • Chinese: “Homestead”
  • Chinese: “霍姆斯特德 (賓州)”
  • Dutch: “Homestead”
  • French: “Homestead”
  • German: “Homestead”
  • Gilaki: “هؤم‌استد (پنسيلوانيا)”
  • Gilaki: “هؤم‌استد”
  • Haitian: “Homestead, Pennsilvani”
  • Haitian: “Homestead”
  • Hebrew: “הומסטד”
  • Irish: “Homestead”
  • Italian: “Homestead”
  • Ladin: “Homestead”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Homestead”
  • Portuguese: “Homestead”
  • Russian: “Хомстед”
  • Rusyn: “Гомстед, Пенсилвания”
  • Rusyn: “Гомстед”
  • Serbian: “Хомстед”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Homestead, Pennsylvania”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Homestead”
  • Spanish: “Homestead (Pensilvania)”
  • Spanish: “Homestead”
  • Swedish: “Homestead”
  • Tatar: “Гоумстед”
  • Ukrainian: “Гоумстед”
  • Uzbek: “Homestead”
  • Vietnamese: “Homestead, Pennsylvania”
  • Vietnamese: “Homestead”
  • Volapük: “Homestead”
  • Welsh: “Homestead, Pennsylvania”
  • Welsh: “Homestead”

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Localities in the Area

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Highlights include Glitterbox Theater and Sullivan Playground.

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