Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Kane, PA

Kane is a borough in McKean County on U.S. Route 6 at the edge of the Allegheny National Forest, 87 miles east-southeast of Erie.

Kane was founded in 1864 by Civil War Brigadier General Thomas L. Kane of the famous Bucktail Regiment and his wife, Elizabeth Denniston Wood Kane, M.D., and the borough was incorporated in 1887.

Kane was a remarkably medical founding family: Elizabeth Kane and three of the Kanes' four children all became physicians practicing in Kane.

In the early 20th century Kane was an industrial hub with large glass works, bottle works and lumber mills, plus factories making brush handles, saws, cutlery, screen doors and windows.

Kane's population peaked at 7,283 in 1920 and has since declined to 3,630 at the 2020 census, living in 1,572 households.

At an elevation of 2,211 feet on the Allegheny Plateau, Kane is the coldest city in Pennsylvania by annual mean temperature, averaging about 93 inches of snowfall a year, with a record low of -35°F.

On May 31, 1985, an F4 tornado tore through Kane around 8:15 p.m., destroying many homes and killing three people — the worst natural disaster in the borough's history.

Kane has four properties on the National Register of Historic Places: the Kane family mansion Anoatok, the Kane Armory, the Thomas L. Kane Memorial Chapel and the New Thomson House.

The Holgate Toy Company was based in Kane for many years and made the wooden replica of the Mister Rogers trolley car seen in every episode of 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.'

Kane Area High School, opened in 1972, stands on the site of General Thomas Kane's homestead — its auditorium stage sits roughly where the general's front porch once stood.