Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Delmont, PA

Delmont is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, that began as New Salem, on 300 acres warranted to William Wilson in 1784; Wilson arrived in 1785 and named it after Salem, Massachusetts.

Delmont grew up as Salem Crossroads, where 48 lots were auctioned off in 1814 to form a crossroads town and the Northern Turnpike was completed in 1818.

Delmont was a busy stagecoach stop until trains replaced stagecoaches in the 1850s, and it was once the last stagecoach stop from the west on the road to Pittsburgh.

Delmont was incorporated on April 8, 1833, as New Salem Borough, making it one of the oldest towns in Westmoreland County.

Delmont carried two names for nearly a century: postmaster Zachariah Zimmerman renamed the post office Delmont in 1871 because mail kept being misdelivered to other Salems, but residents did not vote to rename the borough itself until May 16, 1967.

Delmont had a population of 2,592 at the 2020 census, and it counted 1,070 households at the 2000 census.

Delmont sits at the meeting point of two major highways, U.S. Route 22 and Pennsylvania Route 66.

The Salem Crossroads Historic District in Delmont was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Delmont's Shields Farm, a well-preserved 19th-century tannery property, was purchased in 1980 by the Salem Crossroads Historical Restoration Society.

Delmont is unusual in that the borough is split between two school districts: more than half lies in the Greensburg Salem School District and the rest in the Franklin Regional School District.