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Delmont was initially known as New Salem. The 300 acres of land was warranted to William Wilson in 1784, and upon his arrival in 1785, he named the area New Salem. In 1812, a post office was established in New Salem, "Salem X Roads" (Salem Crossroads), Pennsylvania. Hugh Bigham was the first postmaster.
Salem Crossroads Historic District is a national historic district located at Delmont, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 64 contributing buildings in the historic core of Delmont, originally called Salem Crossroads. The district includes buildings largely constructed between 1830 and 1870.
Sixty-six percent of its area is located in Westmoreland County, with the balance in Allegheny County. The watershed's area is 147.41 square miles (381.79 km 2). It drains forests, farmlands, abandoned mines, and urban and suburban communities. The watershed includes portions of thirty-three municipalities.
U.S. Route 30 (US 30) is a United States Numbered Highway that runs east–west across the southern part of Pennsylvania, passing through Pittsburgh and Philadelphia on its way from the West Virginia state line east to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge over the Delaware River into New Jersey.
U.S. Route 22 (US 22) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that stretches from Cincinnati, Ohio, in the west, to Newark, New Jersey, in the east.In Pennsylvania, the route runs for 338.20 miles (544.28 km) between the West Virginia state line in Washington County, where it is a freeway through the western suburbs of Pittsburgh, and then runs east to Easton and the Pennsylvania ...
South side of Old Route 22, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Delmont, Salem Township, Pennsylvania: Coordinates: Area: 53 acres (21 ha) Built: 1945: NRHP reference No. 10001069 [1] Added to NRHP: December 27, 2010
At the 2000 census, 6,939 people, 2,932 households, and 1,976 families lived in the township.The population density was 147.2 inhabitants per square mile (56.8/km 2).There were 3,117 housing units at an average density of 66.1 units per square mile (25.5 units/km 2).
The elevation profile of the former railway that the Westmoreland Heritage Trail follows is a complex one. Rather than simply paralleling a single river as many rail-trails do, it instead runs alongside and over multiple waters, twice approaching 1200' as the right of way transitions between different watersheds.