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California is a borough on the Monongahela River in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,479 as of the 2020 census. [4] It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. [5] Founded in 1849, the borough was named for the territory of California following the gold rush. [6]
The Monongahela River (/ m ə ˌ n ɒ ŋ ɡ ə ˈ h iː l ə / mə-NONG-gə-HEE-lə, /-ˈ h eɪ-/- HAY-), [10] sometimes referred to locally as the Mon (/ m ɒ n /), [11] is a 130-mile-long (210 km) [6] river on the Allegheny Plateau in north-central West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania.
The California Boatyards was a boatyard in California, Pennsylvania, along the Monongahela River. [1] From the beginning on the California, Pennsylvania, in the 1780s, California was the site of logging and had sawmills. [2] The sawmills were later used to support the shipbuilding industry. [2]
The Mon–Fayette Expressway was originally proposed in the 1950s as a way to link the coke- and steel-producing towns situated in the Monongahela River Valley, thus providing a supplement to existing rail and river passages. Running along the existing PA Route 48, the highway was initially referred to as “New 48” and right-of-way clearance ...
Redstone Creek is a historically important widemouthed canoe and river boat-navigable brook-sized tributary stream of the Monongahela River in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The creek is 28.4 miles (45.7 km) long, [5] running from headwaters on Chestnut Ridge north through the city of Uniontown and reaching the Monongahela at Brownsville ...
This is a complete list of current bridges and other crossings of the Monongahela River starting from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the river helps to form the headwaters of the Ohio River, and ending in Fairmont, West Virginia, where the West Fork River and Tygart Valley River combine to form the Monongahela.
Pennsylvania Route 88 (PA 88) is a 68-mile-long (109 km) north–south state highway located in southwestern Pennsylvania.The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 119 (US 119) in Point Marion less than 2 miles (3 km) from the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border.
Monongahela City Bridge, spans the Monongahela River; Monongahela National Forest, a national forest in eastern West Virginia; Monongahela River, a tributary of the Ohio River Battle of the Monongahela (9 July 1755), at the beginning of the French and Indian War; Lake Monongahela, former Proglacial lake in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio