Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Conway, PA

Conway is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, located along the Ohio River in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

Conway was first settled around 1800 by former Revolutionary War General John McKee, an Irish immigrant who held an 800-acre land grant in what was then New Sewickley Township.

In 1825 McKee sold 230 acres to fellow Irish American Michael Conway, for whom the borough is named, and used the proceeds to help finance the first railroad between Pittsburgh and Beaver County.

Conway was incorporated as a borough in June 1902.

Conway is the site of Conway Yard, a major railroad classification yard built in 1884 by the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

After a $35 million Pennsylvania Railroad rebuilding in the 1950s, Conway Yard became the largest freight rail yard in the world in 1956, a title it held until 1980.

Conway Yard, now owned by Norfolk Southern, spreads across 568 acres with 181 miles of track and room to store more than 11,000 rail cars, and it remains one of the largest yards on the East Coast.

Conway had a population of 2,168 at the 2020 census, and it counted 976 households at the 2010 census.

The borough of Conway covers about 1.5 square miles of mostly single-family homes shaped by the rail yard's mid-20th-century boom years.

Conway's students attend the Freedom Area School District, based in neighboring Freedom.