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10 unusual facts about Monongahela River


Albert Fink

Fink supervised much of the design, and oversaw the building of some of the first iron bridges in the nation, including that over the Monongahela River in Fairmont, West Virginia.

Allen Hazen

One of his early assignments was as consultant to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to determine the best method of providing a safe water supply from the Monongahela River.

Boulevard of the Allies

Before reaching Oakland, it passes by Duquesne University and Mercy Hospital along the edge of a cliff several hundred feet above the Monongahela River with spectacular views of the city's South Side neighborhood and includes partial interchanges with Interstate 579 and Interstate 376.

Brownsville Area High School

There are 600 students at BAHS in grades 9-12 and is located near the Monongahela River.

Edward Coles

They met at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, where the party boarded a pair of flatboats and began a water-bound journey: floating on the Monongahela River north to Pittsburgh, then west along the Ohio River toward Illinois.

Elizabeth Forward High School

Located just south of the city of Pittsburgh, the district lies between the Youghiogheny River and Monongahela River valleys in the southernmost region of Allegheny County.

James H. Hays

His first mine was opened in 1828, at the mouth of Street's Run, where it empties into the Monongahela River.

John Brisben Walker

Walker was born at his parents' country house on the Monongahela River, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Out of This Furnace

The novel is set in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania along the Monongahela River.

The Fourth River

The Fourth River takes its name from a subterranean river beneath Pittsburgh, a city famously sited at the confluence of three rivers: Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio.


Forward Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

The township includes the small Monongahela River community of Gallatin, Pennsylvania, the hometown of baseball record holder Ron Necciai.

Mon–Fayette Expressway Bridge

The Mon–Fayette Expressway Bridge, officially the Ronald C. "Smokey" Blakewell Bridge is a high-level girder bridge that carries vehicular traffic across the Monongahela River between Luzerne Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania and Centerville in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Rivesville, West Virginia

The first stories of temporary European settlement in the Rivesville area involve a Boston native, Pompey Leggett, who settled briefly in the area in 1694, but the first permanent settlements along the Monongahela were not established until after the French and Indian War in 1763.