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16 unusual facts about Allegheny County


Cornell High School

Cornell High School is a public high school located in the borough of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County in the state of Pennsylvania.

Cornell High School serves students from the borough of Coraopolis, as well as Neville Township or Neville Island as it is more commonly called.

Gabriel Rivera

The accident occurred at 9:00 p.m. in Ross Township, a northern suburb of Pittsburgh.

Giant Eagle

The third Market District store opened on November 5, 2009, in the Pittsburgh suburb of Robinson Township.

In 2012, Giant Eagle opened a new low-cost supermarket concept called Good Cents, located in Ross Township, Pennsylvania.

The fifth Market District store opened on January 12, 2012, in the Pittsburgh suburb of Pine Township.

The initial two stores opened in June 2006 in the upscale communities of Shadyside within the City of Pittsburgh and Bethel Park in southern Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Henry Huber

He was born in Evergreen, Pennyslvania in 1869, but moved to Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin with his parents at the age of ten.

Highcliff Elementary School

Highcliff Elementary students and staff were temporarily relocated at the vacant Northway Elementary School facility on Brown’s Lane in Ross Township during the 2009-2010 renovation and expansion project.

Ian Terry

Terry graduated from Shaler Area High School in the Pittsburgh suburb of Shaler, Pennsylvania.

Jim Schrader

After graduating from Scott Township High School in Carnegie, PA, he went on to the University of Notre Dame, where he played under head coach Frank Leahy who was the former line coach for the Seven Blocks of Granite and played shoulder-to-shoulder with Tackle Art Hunter Guard Menil Mavraides, and Fullback Neil Worden as the main blockers for Heisman Trophy winning running back Johnny Lattner.

John E. Murray, Jr.

A native of Philadelphia, Murray lives in Whitehall, Pennsylvania with his wife Liz, a Villanova graduate.

Micky Cave

Cave died in his home in Aleppo, Pennsylvania on 6 November 1984, aged 35, from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning (running his car in a garage).

Mount Oliver Incline

The Mount Oliver Incline was a funicular in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district

Many of Allegheny County's southern suburbs of Pittsburgh are located in the district, which range from traditional wealth areas such as Mount Lebanon and Upper St. Clair, middle class communities such as Bethel Park, Brentwood & Scott Township, and working class labor towns such as Elizabeth.

West Liberty, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

West Liberty Borough was incorporated on March 7, 1876 from the western part of Lower St. Clair Township.


Bill Peduto

In December 2012, Peduto officially launched his third mayoral campaign, announcing that he would challenge Luke Ravenstahl in the 2013 mayoral primary, and was immediately endorsed by Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald.

Celebration of Lights

In September 2012, Chief Executive of Allegheny County Rich Fitzgerald announced that he was cancelling the Celebration of Lights due to inability to find corporate sponsorship.

Dwayne Woodruff

Woodruff was elected in 2005 to be a Judge in the Court of Common Pleas in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

H. Scott Conklin

He joined Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato on the Democratic ticket.

Henry Ellenbogen

Ellenbogen was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses and served until his resignation in 1938, having been elected judge of the common pleas court of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

John M. Snowden

Snowden served terms as Allegheny County Recorder and Treasurer before being elected mayor of Pittsburgh in 1825.

Maksimilijan Vanka

His most important works are his Millvale Murals in the St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church, the first Croatian Catholic parish in the United States, in Millvale, Pennsylvania, a town adjacent to the city of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County.

Pittsburgh Agreement

On Friday, 31 May 1918, a meeting of the Czecho-Slovak National Council under the presidency of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, was called into order at the Loyal Order of Moose Building, 628-634 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Russell M. Nigro

Governor Rendell nominated Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Cynthia A. Baldwin to temporarily fill the vacancy through January 2008.