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7 unusual facts about Western Pennsylvania


Chipped chopped ham

In Western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio, the slicing process is also known as "Pittsburgh Style".

Corbin/Hanner

Bob Corbin and David Hanner, natives of the Western Pennsylvania community of Ford City, began their musical collaboration in high school.

Henry Bidleman Bascom

Henry Bascom joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in Western Pennsylvania in 1811 after his family migrated to the frontier area.

Michael James Genovese

Under Genovese's reign, the Pittsburgh family dominated illegal gambling in Western Pennsylvania, the West Virginia Panhandle, and Eastern Ohio.

Robert Richford Roberts

In the Spring of 1802 he was received on trial in the Baltimore Annual Conference, and appointed to a circuit including Carlisle, Pennsylvania and twenty-nine other preaching appointments in Western Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio.

Samuel M. Jones

He held many jobs in his younger years, the most important of which was the position he accepted at the oil fields of Western Pennsylvania, where he gained a good deal of knowledge of the oil industry and was able to accumulate some modest sums.

Wellspring Worldwide

In 2007, Wellspring launched a services program, initially called Managed Development Services (MDS), to incubate university-based start-up companies in Western Pennsylvania.


Chuck Heberling

In 1976, Heberling took over as executive director of the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL), which held supervisory control over scholastic sports in Western Pennsylvania.

Frederick C. Sauer

"It is the most bizarre collection of buildings in Western Pennsylvania," says Franklin Toker, professor of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.

Greenhorn on the Frontier

It is set in 1770s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just before the American Revolutionary War, and tells the story of nineteen-year-old Harry Warrilow and his twenty-three-year-old sister, Sukey, who move their few possessions by hand cart to start their own farm on the Western Pennsylvania frontier.

Peter J. McArdle

Peter J. McArdle (1874-1940) also known as P.J. McArdle was originally from Muncie, Indiana but moved to Western Pennsylvania by 1905.

WFMJ-TV

The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable/Youngstown channel 3, Armstrong Cable channel 2, Time Warner Cable/Warren channel 4 and Comcast Xfinity channel 7 in the Western Pennsylvania towns of New Castle and Bessemer.


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Charles Owsley

The majority of Owsley's work was in the Mahoning Valley area of Northeast Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, and several of his significant buildings remain in Youngstown, Ohio, Sharon, Pennsylvania, and Salem, Ohio.

Custaloga

He arrived in western Pennsylvania in the mid 18th century and built a sizeable village at the confluence of French Creek and North Deer Creek in Mercer County, PA.

CV Productions, Inc.

“The Sports Museum has brought to light the central role that Pittsburgh has played in the sports of boxing and wrestling, focusing on such greats as Bruno Sammartino and Kurt Angle,” said Anne Madarasz, co-director of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum.

Federal Correctional Institution, Ashland

FCI Ashland's primary service area includes Kentucky, southern Indiana, southern Ohio, western Pennsylvania (Greater Pittsburgh), Tennessee, and West Virginia.

Jacques Marcus Prevost

Augustine was then commissioned as a major, Jacques as a colonel and Jacques Marcus as a captain in the new Royal American Regiment, formed of German and Swiss settlers in the colonies by Great Britain after General Braddock's defeat in western Pennsylvania in the French and Indian Wars in 1755 and with the threat of war with France looming.

Kecksburg

Kecksburg UFO incident, a purported Unidentified Flying Object incident in 1965 near Keckburg in Western Pennsylvania

Kecksburg, Pennsylvania

It streaked over the Detroit, Michigan/Windsor, Ontario area, dropped metal debris over Michigan and northern Ohio, and caused sonic booms in Western Pennsylvania.

Kings Family Restaurants

Kings donates to many charity organizations, including the Leukemia Society of Western Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Western Pennsylvania.

Liberty pole

During the Whiskey Rebellion, locals in western Pennsylvania would erect poles along the roads or in town centers as a protest against the federal government's tax on distilled spirits, and evoke the spirit embodied by the liberty poles of decades earlier.

McGuffey

McGuffey School District, a school district in Western Pennsylvania, United States

National Supermarkets

At its height, National's footprint extended from western Pennsylvania to Colorado, with stores in Denver, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, the Quad Cities, Indianapolis, Chicago, Youngstown, Memphis, and Nashville.

Pittsburgh Council for International Visitors

As the designated liaison for the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program in Western Pennsylvania, GlobalPittsburgh designs and implements tailored itineraries for leaders in a variety of fields who are seeking a gateway to the local community and insights into American culture.

Seneca Valley School District

In 2009, the 8th grade was ranked 34th out of 141 western Pennsylvania middle schools based on three years of student academic achievement in PSSAs in: reading, math writing and one year of science.

W. A. Boyle

The murders were also portrayed in a 1986 HBO television movie, Act of Vengeance. Charles Bronson (himself a native of Ehrenfeld, in the western Pennsylvania mining region) portrayed Yablonski and Wilford Brimley played Boyle.

WBGI

Over the years, WCVI became one of the top stations in Western Pennsylvania, and best known for fostering the careers of local sportscaster legends Kevin Harrison and Jack Benedict.

Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum

The Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum is a railroad museum in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania.

Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf

The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (WPSD) is a school for deaf and hard of hearing children in Edgewood, Pennsylvania.

Western Wisconsin Derecho

Theories for the change in coverage include the massive influx of Cubans into the country; the Mount St. Helens eruption of 18 May; the severe tornadoes in Grand Island, Nebraska in June; and flooding in western Pennsylvania during August.

WNCD

At one time, WNCD simulcast its signal on WLLF 96.7 FM in Mercer, Pennsylvania, aiming for listeners in the eastern part of the Youngstown market into Western Pennsylvania.

Woodlawn Station

Aliquippa Station, a defunct station on the National Register of Historic Places near that town in western Pennsylvania, also sometimes known as Woodlawn Station.