Bruceton is an
unincorporated suburb of
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
within
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the
Greater Pittsburgh metropolitan region. Its western half is part of
South Park Township
South Park Township is a township in the southern part of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, near Pittsburgh. The population was 13,416 at the 2010 census.
A large portion of the township consists of a county park of the same name. ...
and its eastern half is part of
Jefferson Hills.
Bruceton is the home of the
Experimental Mine of the
U.S. Bureau of Mines, which originally opened in 1910. It is also the home of the Pittsburgh Safety and Health Technology Center. The
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway
The Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway was a railroad in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wheeling, West Virginia, areas. Originally built as the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, a Pittsburgh extension of George J. Gould's Wabash Railroad ...
connected to the
B&O Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...
in Bruceton.It is 185 mi (or 298 km) northwest of Washington D.C.
History
For several years in the early 1940s, the town hosted almost 100 scientists to help develop the
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project w ...
as a laboratory of the
National Defense Research Committee including a month-long visit by
Linus Pauling.
See also
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Bruceton analysis
*
Experimental Mine, U.S. Bureau of Mines
*
George Kistiakowsky
George may refer to:
People
* George (given name)
* George (surname)
* George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George
* George Washington, First President of the United States
* George W. Bush, 43rd President ...
*
National Energy Technology Laboratory
*
RDX
References
Unincorporated communities in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania
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