Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Midland, PA

Midland is a borough on the Ohio River in western Beaver County, Pennsylvania, founded in 1906 as a company town built around the Midland Steel Company's Midland Works.

Midland began in 1905 when agent T. K. Miller quietly bought about 1,019 acres with two miles of Ohio River frontage - including the 397-acre Neel farm - for the industrialists who formed the Midland Steel Company.

Midland was incorporated as a borough in 1906, the same year its first blast furnace was blown in, and the company had already built nearly 50 houses for workers by then.

In 1911 the Pittsburgh Crucible Steel Company bought the Midland works and poured millions into expanding it; by the end of the First World War, Crucible employed 2,700 men in Midland.

Midland's population peaked at 6,491 in the 1950 census, during the height of the steel era.

Midland had a population of 2,433 at the 2020 census, in roughly 1,100 households, after decades of steel-industry decline that included the plant's passage to LTV Steel, which went bankrupt in 2001.

Pennsylvania Route 68, called Midland Avenue, is the borough's main street, running east toward Industry and west toward Glasgow and the Ohio state line.

Midland reinvented itself around the arts: the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center and its tuition-free charter school for grades 7-12 opened in 2006, with a 750-seat main stage that draws nearly 40,000 visitors a year to the borough.

The Midland Borough School District still runs the borough's elementary and middle school, while the borough marks 120 years since its 1906 founding in 2026.

Midland is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, about four miles from the Ohio border in the tri-state corner of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia.