For nearly 100 years, Bridgeville was a village within Upper St. Clair Township, known for its one bridge over Chartiers Creek where people frequently met to trade goods.

Chartiers Township is a township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.

The historical character of Chartiers Township has been significantly influenced by its agricultural history, its natural resources such as coal and oil and its location along major transportation routes.

Chartiers Township is located in Washington County, PA.

The emergence of the Chartiers Valley Railroad and then the local Interstate Highways mitigated the creek ’ s use for transportation but its significance at the end of the 18th century is demonstrated in the name for the Township.

Colonel James Allison settled in the Township in 1774 as one of the first settlers on Chartiers Creek.

Coal had also become one of the main products of Chartiers Township for many years.

Chartiers Township has been the site of significant historical events over the past three hundred years.

The “ Concord Coaches ” stage coach line ran through the Meadow Lands on the Pittsburgh and Washington line, whose function was later replaced by Chartiers Valley Railway also located in the Township.

The Pennsylvania Railway Museum Association non-profit organization purchased a 2, 000-foot section of railway line of the Pittsburgh Railways Company's abandoned Washington interurban trolley line from Washington to Pittsburgh near the Washington County Fairgrounds in Chartiers Township.

Chartiers Township is a 24. 53 square mile municipality located in central Washington County, five ( 5 ) miles north of the City of Washington and twenty-five ( 25 ) miles southwest of the major metropolitan area of Pittsburgh.

Chartiers Township can be categorized as primarily a residential and agricultural community.

The Arden Landfill is located in the Township and the Department of Environmental Protection has issued a major permit modification to Arden Landfill Inc., authorizing an expansion of the existing municipal landfill in Chartiers Township from 280 acres to 434 acres.

Chartiers Township ’ s resources and convenient location in the regional transportation network has attracted increased development pressures.

* Chartiers Township Municipal Website, official city government website.

Students in Houston and neighboring Chartiers Township attend school in the Chartiers-Houston School District.

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Founded in 1902 by the Chartiers Land Company, Rosslyn Farms was developed by William Parrish.

The railroad system, on its way from Mansfield ( Carnegie ) to Washington ( See: Chartiers Branch ), was fully operational, as scheduled, on May 18, 1871.

At this time, there was navigation on Chartiers Creek.

When coal was discovered in Washington County in the 1880s it was shipped down Chartiers Creek to the Ohio River in times of high water.

The Chartiers Valley Railroad Company was begun in 1830 and was the second railroad project of its size in the United States.

After the Chartiers Valley Railroad was completed through that section in 1871, David C. Houston, a son of Daniel Houston, saw the possibilities of a town at that point and laid out the present plan of Houstonville.

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Bridgeville is served by the Chartiers Valley School District.

Other locations named in honor of Thaddeus Stevens includes the community of Stevens, Pennsylvania, Stevens County, Kansas, Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Thaddeus Stevens School in Lyndon Center, Vermont, Stevens School ( York, Pennsylvania ), Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in the Chartiers neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ( built in 1940 with architectural details by Charles Bradley Warren ), and Stevens High School ( Lancaster, Pennsylvania ).

The village that eventually became Bridgeville acquired its name from the very first bridge built at the crossing of Chartiers Creek at the south end of what is now Washington Avenue.

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Crawford surveyed land on Chartiers Creek for Washington that Croghan claimed when the survey of one of his Indian deeds fell far short of the called for and he had it redone.

More than twenty years later, 1784, and despite presenting a questionable patent, Washington won a court case against Chartiers Creek families who had bought their land from Croghan.

Colonel John Canon, a common miller who also served as justice of the Virginia courts at Fort Dunmore ( now Pittsburgh ), purchased some land from the state of Virginia around Chartiers Creek, sometime before May 1780.

Colonial John Canon, the founder of Canonsburg, loaded two boats with flour from his mill and shipped them to New Orleans via Chartiers Creek and the Ohio River.

Along its southeastern border, runs Chartiers Creek separating it from North and South Strabane.

There are a number of coal mines in the vicinity, and branch roads have been built from the Chartiers Valley Railroad to Midland, McConnells Mills and Westland.

The section of Chartiers Valley High School Stadium where the Steel Army stands and supports the Riverhounds from is called " The Yard ".

The sale of this land part financed purchases of land in the Chartiers valley.

Note: In 1752, Conrad Weiser reported visiting Queen Aliquippa, at “ Aliquippa's Town ” located on the Ohio at the mouth of Chartiers Creek, a tributary of the Ohio River near McKees Rocks and Pittsburgh.

An active community group, the West End Elliott Citizens Council, is located on Chartiers Avenue and is working to help reverse this deterioration.

Beginning with the 2008 season, Chartiers Valley High School's stadium, located just off the Kirwin Heights exit of Interstate 79 in Pittsburgh's South Hills, would be the new home of the Hounds.

East Carnegie is located along Chartiers Creek, with access to downtown Pittsburgh or the Airport via the Port Authority Transit's West Busway.

Chartiers and Houston formed a jointure and the Chartiers-Houston School District had its first graduating class in 1956.