Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near West Eldred Eldred, PA

Eldred is a borough in McKean County, Pennsylvania that was settled in 1815 and incorporated in 1880, taking its name from Judge Nathaniel B. Eldred.

Eldred lies less than 3 miles south of the New York state line in the Allegheny River valley - the river forms part of the borough's border and Barden Brook flows through its center.

Pennsylvania Route 446 runs through Eldred as its Main Street, about 13 miles north of Smethport, the McKean County seat, and Pennsylvania Route 346 has its eastern terminus in the borough.

Eldred was earlier known as Allegheny Bridge, and its post office was renamed Eldred in February 1880, the year of incorporation; the Littlefield well of 1878 was an early oil producer in the area.

Eldred covers 0.91 square miles and had a population of 1,165 in the 1880 census, 825 residents in 345 households in 2010, and 765 in the 2020 census.

Eldred is home to the Kendall Bridge, reportedly one of only a few bridges in the world where a road turns off the suspended section to create a suspended intersection, spanning the Allegheny River and the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad.

During World War II, a munitions plant in Eldred produced eight million bombs, mortar shells, and fuses, with 1,500 people working around the clock from January 1942 to May 1945.

The Eldred World War II Museum, opened on Memorial Day 1996, commemorates the borough's wartime munitions workers.

Students in Eldred attend the Otto-Eldred School District.

The Andy Leider Fire Truck Collection is relocating to Eldred, where it is billed as the country's largest museum of vintage motorized fire trucks.