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Brownsville played an important role in the settlement of America's first frontier and in the industrial development of western Pennsylvania.The site where Brownsville now stands, home to Native Americans, was known as 'Redstone Old Fort'. A road connecting Maryland to the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains followed Nemacolin Trail (blazed by the Indian ChiefNemacolin); was the first road paid for by the Government; and was known asthe 'National road' or 'National Pike'. The road was later improved and used for pioneer and military use by the British. Brownsville situated, at the western most point of Fayette County, onthe National Road and overlooking the Monongahela River was the gateway to the west. Thomas Brown, realizing that pioneers would be drawn to theBrownsville area to get to the Ohio Valley and the state of Kentucky, purchased land in the 1700's and by mid 1700's a town was being mapped out. It was then, that the town of Brownsville (named for Thomas Brown and formerly known as Redstone Old Fort) became a "keel-boat" building center as well as other businesses for travelers. The businessmen from Brownsville supplied transportation and supplies to the traveling pioneers, and the town became very prosperous. The steamboat industry soon took over to facilitate traffic along the Monongahela River. The very first steamboat, the Enterprise, to travel to New Orleans and return by its own power was designed and built in the Brownsville boatyards and launched from the Brownsville Wharf in 1814. The town began to decline in the mid 1800's due to the completion of a railroad designed to connect Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. Brownsville's transportation system wasn't able to surpass the fast track of the railway. The steel industry soon appeared and shortly after that in the twentieth century, Brownsville's rich coal veins provided the necessary product for making steel and became an important railroad and commercial center. This boom lasted until the mid 1900's when many changes in industry affected the atmosphere of this twice prosperous town and many other communities in this Monongahela Valley.
2010 RENTAL FEES FOR THE PATSY HILLMAN PARK. HILLMAN PAVILION $150.00 + $100 DEPOSIT LUZERNE PAVILION , BROWNSVILLE PAVILION, COMISSIONERS PAVILION $75.00 + $50.00 DEPOSIT. ROTARY $PAVILION 50.00 + $50.00 DEPOSIT CALL FRANK RICCO AT 724.785.3600 FOR PAVILION RESERVATION
I am going to try and show the history of events that made Brownsville what it is today. If anyone would like to help in this endeavor with me as for a class project or just as a local interest please feel free to email me with your input. Here are some of the events that I have come up with and if you have more just email this site. 1. Thomas Brown 2. Nemacolin Castle and it's significance to Brownsville 3. Steamboat building 4. Railroads and coal mines 5. Three Boroughs 6. Krepps bottom
Penn Dot has taken back High Street and Market Street for winter maintainence and the phone number to call for any problems about snow and ice removal on those streets is to be directed to 724.439.7470
http://www.city-data.com/city/Brownsville-Pennsylvania.html
I am the artist facilitating the project, the workshop is free to the public *Building Brownsville:*
For further information, please contact: Thank you so much for your kind attention, Helen Art 2 Go View Schedule at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/art2go
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