David Leech
David Leech is a monument in Borough of Leechburg, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. David Leech is situated nearby to Leechburg Area Museum and Historical Society, as well as near the police station Leechburg Police Department.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kiskimere and Pleasant View.
Kiskimere
Hamlet
Kiskimere is a census-designated place located in Parks Township, Armstrong County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census the population was 135.
Pleasant View
Hamlet
Pleasant View is a census-designated place in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 677 at the 2020 census. Pleasant View was formerly part of the census-designated place of North Vandergrift-Pleasant View at the 2000 Census, before splitting into two separate CDPs for the 2010 census. Pleasant View is situated 2 miles southeast of David Leech.
Vandergrift
Town
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Vandergrift is a borough in Westmoreland County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, approximately 30 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. In the early 20th century, Vandergrift had the largest sheet steel mill in the world. Vandergrift is situated 2½ miles southeast of David Leech.
David Leech
- Type: Monument
- Inscription: “David Leech was born in Bucks County, PA in 1791 and trained as a civil engineer at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. Leech arrived here in 1827 with a contract to build a lock & dam for the Pennsylvania Canal. He laid out the town in 1829 then erected”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Borough of Leechburg, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.6268° or 40° 37′ 37″ northLongitude
-79.60324° or 79° 36′ 12″ westOpen location code
87G2J9GW+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 13046822019OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monument
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