Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Connellsville, PA

Connellsville is a city in Fayette County on the Youghiogheny River, about 36 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

Connellsville was founded by Zachariah Connell, a militia captain during the American Revolution, and was established as a borough on March 1, 1806.

During the French and Indian War, General Edward Braddock's British army crossed the Youghiogheny River at Stewart's Crossing, in the middle of what is now Connellsville, on its march toward Fort Duquesne.

In 1911 Connellsville merged with the neighboring borough of New Haven to become the first city in Fayette County, incorporated on May 12, 1911.

Connellsville became known as the "Coke Capital of the World" because of the amount and quality of coke produced in the beehive ovens of the surrounding Connellsville Coalfield.

By 1910, about 44,000 of Pennsylvania's roughly 55,000 coke ovens were in the Connellsville area, and the local Pittsburgh-seam coal was prized as nearly pure carbon, low in sulfur and phosphorus.

Connellsville's population peaked at 13,804 in 1920 during the coke boom; it had 7,031 residents at the 2020 census.

Coal mining and coke production around Connellsville were dominated by Henry Clay Frick's coke empire, which supplied the Pittsburgh steel industry.