Description: CREATING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND IMPROVING THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE CITY OF ALIQUIPPA, Beaver County
You come here, and you fall in love with the people first and then the city takes hold of you. This city is resilient. This city is powerful. This city understands love then loss. It’s always been here. Aliquippa is not a resurrection project, this is a renaissance.
Located along the Ohio River, approximately 25 miles northwest of the City of Pittsburgh, Aliquippa was founded in 1878 by the merger of three small towns: Aliquippa, Woodlawn, and New Sheffield. The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad named the new town Aliquippa after its local train station for the reputed Seneca Indian Queen Aliquippa.
Aliquippa was best known in the first part of the 20th century as the epicenter of steel production. Construction began in 1905 by the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company (J & L Steel) of the largest, fully integrated steel mill reportedly in the world, eventually stretching over seven miles along Ohio River. Employment at the facility peaked at over 16,000 in the 1950’s. The City’s population became a melting pot of nationalities and ethnic backgrounds, swelling from 1700 people in 1910 to a peak of over 27,0