Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Brockway, PA

Brockway is a borough in northeastern Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, set in the valley of Little Toby Creek, a tributary of the Clarion River in the Pennsylvania Wilds region.

Brockway was settled in 1822 when brothers Alonzo and John S. Brockway arrived along Little Toby Creek, and the town was laid out in 1836 by Dr. A.M. Clarke.

The town was originally called Brockwayville - a post office opened under that name in 1829 - and it was not shortened to Brockway until 1925.

Brockway was incorporated as a borough in 1883, the same year the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad began service through the town.

Brockway had a population of 2,276 at the 2020 census, with 911 households counted back at the 2000 census.

Glass was first made in Brockway in 1897, and the Brockway Glass Company, founded in 1907, grew into one of the world's largest makers of glass containers before Owens-Illinois acquired it in 1988.

Glassmaking was so central to the town's identity that Brockway is locally known as 'Glasstown, USA.'

The Brockwayville Passenger Depot, the town's Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad station, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 and now serves as a senior center and events venue.

In 1876 a single cube of coal weighing over a ton, mined from a farm just west of Brockway, was exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and then sent to the Smithsonian.

Brockway is a trail hub for three rails-to-trails paths - the Clarion-Little Toby Trail, the Five Bridges Trail and the Wolf Run Trail - and is home to Taylor Memorial Park and the Taylor Memorial Museum.