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Ambridge is a borough in Beaver County on the Ohio River, 16 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, whose name is a contraction of the 'American Bridge' Company that built it.

Ambridge was incorporated in 1905 as a company town by the American Bridge Company, which had bought about 2,500 acres from the Harmony Society and built a massive structural steel plant and a town around it.

Before the steel plant, the site was Economy (Ökonomie), founded in 1824 as the third and final home of the Harmony Society, the German Pietist communal sect led by George Rapp.

The Harmonists made Economy the American silk center of the 1830s and 1840s, but their practice of celibacy doomed the society, which dissolved in 1905.

Old Economy Village, the preserved Harmonist town at the heart of Ambridge, is a National Historic Landmark administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and the wider Ambridge Historic District preserves the Harmonist buildings folded into the steel town.

Ambridge boomed with the bridge works, passing 20,000 residents by 1930; the 2020 census counted 6,972 people in the borough.

During World War II the American Bridge plant in Ambridge fabricated steel for LST landing ships, which were assembled at the company's adjacent naval shipyard in Leetsdale.

The American Bridge Company ended its Ambridge operations in 1983, closing the plant that had created the town nearly 80 years earlier.

Ambridge stands near Legionville, where General 'Mad Anthony' Wayne trained his Legion of the United States in 1792, one of the first formal training camps of the U.S. Army.

The Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge, built in 1926 by American Bridge and Jones & Laughlin Steel, still carries traffic across the Ohio River to Aliquippa.