Braddock

Worth seeing in and around Braddock

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Kennywood

   Kennywood is an amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, just southeast of Pittsburgh. The park opened on May 30, 1898, as a trolley park attraction at the end of the Mellon family's Monongahela Street Railway.

   1.8 km · amusement park in Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
2. 02
   George Westinghouse Bridge

   George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, carries U.S. Route 30, the Lincoln Highway, over the Turtle Creek Valley near to where it joins the Monongahela River Valley east of Pittsburgh. The reinforced concrete open-spandrel deck arch bridge has a total length of 1,598 feet comprising five spans.

   3 km · concrete arch bridge over Turtle Creek · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Auto Race

   Auto Race, previously known as Auto Ride, is a miniature car ride located at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. It was conceived and designed by Harry G. Traver of Traver Engineereing.

   1.7 km · amusement park ride · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Bost Building

   The Bost Building, also known as Columbia Hotel, is located on East Eighth Avenue in Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States. Built just before the 1892 Homestead Strike, it was used as headquarters by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and for reporters covering the confrontation.

   3.1 km · building in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Carnegie Library of Homestead

   The Carnegie Library of Homestead is a public library in Munhall, Pennsylvania founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1898. It is one of 2,509 Carnegie libraries worldwide, 1,689 of which were built in the United States.

   3 km · library in Munhall, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Carnegie Free Library of Braddock

   The Braddock Carnegie Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania, is the first Carnegie Library in the United States. As such, the library was named a National Historic Landmark in 2012, following its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and is on the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation's List of Historic Landmarks.

   300 m · Carnegie library in Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
7. 07
   St Nicholas Carpatho-Rusyn church

   St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, also known as St.

   3.6 km · church in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
8. 08
   PRR Port Perry Bridge

   The PPR Port Perry Bridge is a truss bridge that carries the Port Perry Branch of the Norfolk Southern Railway across the Monongahela River between the Pennsylvania towns of North Versailles Township and Duquesne. The bridge was built to serve the Pennsylvania Railroad, to provide better access to industrial sites, and to help through trains bypass downtown Pittsburgh.

   2.3 km · railroad bridge in Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
9. 09
   The Waterfront

   The Waterfront is a super-regional open air shopping mall spanning the three boroughs of Homestead, West Homestead, and Munhall near Pittsburgh. The shopping mall sits on land once occupied by U.S. Steel's Homestead Steel Works plant, which closed in 1986.

   3.7 km · shopping mall near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Union Railroad Port Perry Bridge

    The Union Railroad Port Perry Bridge is a truss bridge that carries the Pennsylvania Union Railroad across the Monongahela River between Duquesne, Pennsylvania and the former town site of Port Perry in North Versailles, Pennsylvania. Industrial pipelines adorn the bridge, conveying coke oven gas produced at U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works to the company's Edgar Thomson Steel Works near the north end of the bridge for use as fuel.

    2.2 km · bridge in Pennsylvania, United States of America · Wikipedia

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Getting to Braddock

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