17 Facts About Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania

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Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania was formed from the area of a valley going through the hills located east of the three rivers confluence, the Allegheny River, the Monongahela River, and the Ohio River: this natural valley allowed passage by land through the east-west barrier of the Appalachian Mountains to and from the east, whether to or from Philadelphia or other parts of the Atlantic coast, along the rivers, through the Cumberland Gap, or by other transportation routes.

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Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania has ten borders, including Penn Hills Township to the northeast, Churchill to the east, Forest Hills to the southeast, Edgewood to the south, Swissvale to the southwest, and the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Regent Square, Point Breeze, and North Point Breeze to the west, Homewood South to the northwest, and East Hills to the north.

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Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania was founded and developed by highly religious European immigrants.

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Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania was known during this time by many as "The Holy City".

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In 1899 the Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania library was founded as a branch of the Braddock library .

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The Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania library serves as a meeting place for council members and the home of the local police department.

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Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania thus became the original location for modern broadcasting, combining the concepts of "the station, the audience, the programs, and a means to pay for the programs" after Conrad accepted a donation from a Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania music store to promote its musical offerings.

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In 1923, Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania-based Russian immigrant Vladimir Zworykin designed and patented the iconoscope, the photocell "eye" of early television cameras.

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The Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania Academy, founded in 1852, was the beginning of large-scale schooling.

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Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania is home to the Sister Thea Bowman Catholic Academy.

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Wilkinsburg is a borough, located in the U S Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; which means that Wilkinsburg is a self-governing municipal entity, of the sort often thought of as a town.

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Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania Borough is organized into three wards: First, Second, and Third.

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Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania has or has associated various Boards, Committees, and Authorities.

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Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania voters voted predominantly for the Democratic Party in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections.

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Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania was home to the infamous Larimer Avenue-Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania Gang, which the federal government indicted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act .

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The last train serving Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania was the National Limited, which operated daily between New York City and Kansas City, Missouri.

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Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania has multiple stations operated by the Port Authority of Allegheny County, on the Martin Luther King Jr.

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