Situated at the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny, McKeesport is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

The city’s first steel mill was established in 1851, and when National Tube Company opened operations in McKeesport in 1872, the city became the fastest growing municipality in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Families arrived from other parts of the eastern United States, as well as Italy, Germany, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary to work at National Tube Company.

McKeesport rose to national prominence during the 1900s as a center for manufacturing steel.

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