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Forest Hills is a borough in Allegheny County that was incorporated on July 29, 1919, carved out of Wilkins and Braddock townships after residents grew tired of paying taxes with few benefits and fought in court over maintenance of the Lincoln Highway.

Forest Hills was named after Forest Hills, Queens, in New York City.

Forest Hills grew up around the Westinghouse Research Laboratories, and its early neighborhoods included sections known as the Westinghouse Plan, Ardmore, Rockwood, Woodland Hills, Edgewood Acres and Bryn Mawr.

Forest Hills was home to the Westinghouse Atom Smasher, a 65-foot, pear-shaped, five-million-volt Van de Graaff electrostatic nuclear accelerator built in 1937 - the first industrial Van de Graaff generator in the world.

The Westinghouse Atom Smasher was used in 1940 in research that discovered the photofission of uranium and thorium, was decommissioned in 1958, and was designated with a Pennsylvania Historical Marker on August 28, 2010, before its main tower was toppled in 2015.

In 1923 Westinghouse opened a special radio facility in Forest Hills where engineers led by Frank Conrad demonstrated the vital role of high-frequency short waves in sending broadcasts around the world.

Forest Hills Park was acquired in 1936 under a legal provision that the property belongs to the borough's taxpayers and can never be sold without their consent.

Forest Hills had about 3,112 households in the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 figures, with roughly 75% of its homes owner-occupied.

Forest Hills had a population of 6,429 at the 2020 census, down from 6,518 in 2010 and 7,320 in 1990.

Forest Hills covers only about 1.57 square miles along U.S. Route 30, the Lincoln Highway, about seven miles east of downtown Pittsburgh, yet packs in more than 4,100 residents per square mile.