Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Gibsonia, PA

Gibsonia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Richland Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, about 16 miles north of downtown Pittsburgh.

Gibsonia was named for the Gibson family, early settlers of the area, whose homestead was built by Charles Gibson Jr. in 1839 and stood until it was demolished in December 2019.

Around the time of the Civil War, Charles Gibson Jr. built the first steam flour mill west of the Alleghenies on Grubbs Road, and farmers rode in with sacks of grain across their saddles.

Charles Gibson's general store, whose foundation still remains near the railroad crossing, also served as Gibsonia's first post office before the building burned in 1908.

From 1907 to 1931, the Pittsburgh and Butler Street Railway trolley line connected Gibsonia with Pittsburgh and Butler before buses on Route 8 replaced it.

The Gibsonia CDP itself had 2,785 residents at the 2020 census, up from 2,733 in 2010 - far fewer than the roughly 28,000 people in the wider 15044 postal area that shares the Gibsonia name.

Gibsonia is home to the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum, founded in 1938, whose 4,000-square-foot HO-scale layout recreating the Pittsburgh-to-Cumberland rail route in the summer of 1952 is among the largest model railroad displays in the United States.

Most Gibsonia-area students attend the Pine-Richland School District, and Chatham University's Eden Hall Campus for environmental studies sits in the Gibsonia part of Richland Township.