* 25px U. S. Route 119-provides access to Morgantown in the south as a rolling two-lane highway, before becoming Fayette County's main street ; serves as part of a freeway bypass of Uniontown, then functions as a four lane route through Connellsville, before traveling toward the Pittsburgh edge suburb of Greensburg

Connellsville is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA, 57 miles ( 92 km ) southeast of Pittsburgh on the Youghiogheny River, a tributary of the Monongahela River.

Connellsville has the distinction of being served at one time by 5 railroads: the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Western Maryland Railroad, the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, and the Norfolk and Western Railroad.

Amtrak's provides passenger rail service to Connellsville, with service to Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington, DC, and other points in between.

Nearby Cities: Pittsburgh ( 34. 5 miles ), Connellsville ( 6. 0 miles ), Dawson ( 6. 0 miles ), Everson ( 0. 9 miles ), Hunker ( 7. 3 miles ), Mount Pleasant ( 4. 7 miles ), New Stanton ( 8. 2 miles ), South Connellsville ( 7. 2 miles ), Vanderbilt ( 6. 9 miles ).

The first track of railroad was built by Mr. B. F. Jones, of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad and later of Jones and Laughlin.

Born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, U. S., " Long " John Woodruff was only a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh in 1936 when he placed second at the National AAU meet and first at the Olympic Trials ( in the heat 1: 49, 9 ; WR 1: 49, 8 ), earning a spot on the U. S. Olympic team.

After attending public schools in Connellsville and Pittsburgh, Porter worked, among other odd jobs, as an exhibition skater, a sign painter, and a telegraph operator.

Shrum was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Connellsville, Pennsylvania and raised in Los Angeles.

The WM connected at Connellsville with the Pittsburgh & West Virginia, which connected at Pittsburgh with the Wabash, which in turn connected with the Missouri Pacific, then the Denver & Rio Grande Western, then finally the Western Pacific to form a coast-to-coast railroad.

The line connected Pittsburgh in the east with Youngstown, Ohio at nearby Haselton, Ohio in the west and Connellsville, Pennsylvania to the east.

At Connellsville the WM connected with the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad ( P & LE ).

In 1931, the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway ( P & WV ) reached Connellsville to connect with the WM.

Much of the coal that was used in the Pittsburgh mills was obtained from the hills surrounding Connellsville, Pennsylvania, a neighboring town to Uniontown.

He resigned to become assistant engineer during the construction of the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad.

Carnegie's empire grew to include the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works, ( named for John Edgar Thomson, Carnegie's former boss and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad ), Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works, the Lucy Furnaces, the Union Iron Mills, the Union Mill ( Wilson, Walker & County ), the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company, and the Scotia ore mines.

The group invested in the construction of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, established the Economy Savings Institution and the Economy Brick Works, and operated the Economy Oil Company, as well as the Economy Planing Mill, Economy Lumber Company, and eventually donated some land in Beaver Falls for the construction of Geneva College.

* Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad

* 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.

* Fifteenth Division: Pennsylvania, Delaware, also lines of Pennsylvania Railroad west of Pittsburgh.

* July 16 – Great railroad strike of 1877: Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore, Maryland lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a Communist government before U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces.

Beyond Toledo, the planned route would have used the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad ( 1900 ), Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, Little Kanawha Railroad, West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway, Western Maryland Railroad and Philadelphia and Western Railway, but the Panic of 1907 strangled the plans before the Little Kanawha section in West Virginia could be finished.

The railroad was eventually named Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad.

Community development in Coraopolis moved along gradually with the building of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad in 1877.

A train of the Gilmore & Pittsburgh Railroad pauses at the railway's depot in Leodore, August 1912.

The town of Leadore dates from 1910, when the Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad was constructed from Armstead, Montana over Bannock Pass and into the Lemhi Valley.

Greenfield was a stop along the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad that connected Pittsburgh to Chicago and St. Louis.

The main trade was in grain, as the area consisted of excellent prairie farmland ; the town's position on the Pittsburgh, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad made it a good location for such trade.

" It took the construction of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad in 1863 to open the town to growth.

In 1858 the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne, and Chicago Railroad reached Valparaiso and connected the city directly to Chicago.

Union City was a stop along the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, a forerunner of the Pennsylvania Railroad that connected Pittsburgh to Chicago and St. Louis.

Seven years later he was asked to become director of the Pittsburgh Symphony.

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).

Last week, in the German city of Dusseldorf, G. David Thompson was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause.

Linda accepted the reproach, which was something she did rarely in all her life and most rarely in that summer of 1936 when she was by all odds the prettiest and brightest young woman west of the Allegheny Mountains, and John was surely one of the handsomer and brighter young men around Pittsburgh.

Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Andy Warhol had two older brothers — Pavol ( Paul ), the oldest, was born in Slovakia ; Ján was born in Pittsburgh.

His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.

* Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh was named after Carnegie, who founded the institution as the Carnegie Technical Schools. Carnegie Vanguard High School

Boston was a dominant team in the new league, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series in and winning four more championships by.

This was especially impressive since two of the teams swept by the Bengals ( the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens ) had both made it to the AFC Championship Game the previous season.

Following the Pittsburgh drug trials, an unsuccessful attempt was made to purchase the Pittsburgh Pirates and relocate them.

" On October 1, 1903 the first modern World Series between the American League champion Boston Pilgrims ( later known as the Red Sox ) and the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates was played on this site.

Clarke was born Katherine Anne Clarke in Pittsburgh, the oldest of five sisters, the youngest of whom is Victoria Clarke.

Wilfrid Sellars, an influential figure in the so-called " Pittsburgh school " ( Robert Brandom, John McDowell ) had been a student of Marvin Farber, a pupil of Husserl, and was influenced by phenomenology through him:

The first successful permanent theatre showing nothing but films was " The Nickelodeon ", which was opened in Pittsburgh in 1905.

Boles returned to his previous position as director of player development, and former Pittsburgh Pirates manager Jim Leyland was hired to lead the club in.

Kelly was born in the Highland Park neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

In 1931, he was approached by the Rodef Shalom synagogue in Pittsburgh to teach dance, and to stage the annual Kermess.