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Donora is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River. The population was 4,558 as of the 2020 census. [3] Donora was incorporated in 1901. It takes its name from a portmanteau of William Donner and Nora Mellon (1878-1973), wife of banker Andrew W ...
Cement City Historic District is a historic district in Donora, Pennsylvania.The district includes 80 Prairie School concrete residences built in 1916–17. The homes served as housing for employees of the American Steel and Wire Company.
Webster Donora Bridge: Webster Donora Bridge: June 22, 1988 : State Route 1022 over the Monongahela River: Donora: Extends into Rostraver Township in Westmoreland County: 91: Welsh-Emery House: Welsh-Emery House: March 7, 1995 : 114 Emery Road
Monongahela, [4] referred to locally as Mon City, is a third class city in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population was 4,149 at the 2020 census. [5] It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, about 17 miles (27 km) south of Pittsburgh proper.
Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) Snyder, Lynne Page. "'The death-dealing smog over Donora, Pennsylvania': industrial air pollution, public health policy, and the politics of expertise, 1948–1949." Environmental History Review 18.1 (1994): 117–139.
Ringgold School District is a midsized, suburban, public school district located in the northeastern corner of Washington County, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh. [1] The district encompasses 58 square miles, including the city of Monongahela, the boroughs of Donora, New Eagle and Finleyville, and the townships of Carroll, Union, and Nottingham.
Ringgold High School, part of the Ringgold School District, is a public high school in Carroll Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, which is about thirty miles south of Pittsburgh. The Ringgold School District was formed as a result of the merger of the Donora and Monongahela School Districts.
Donora was home to U.S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works and its American Steel & Wire plant. The event is sometimes credited for initiating the clean-air movement in the United States, whose crowning achievement was the Clean Air Act. The museum, which opened October 20, 2008, is located at 595 McKean Avenue near Sixth Street in an old storefront.