Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Point Marion, PA

Point Marion is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, sitting at the confluence of the Monongahela and Cheat rivers, less than one mile north of the West Virginia state line.

The French set up a trading post where the two rivers meet in 1724, and surveyors Mason and Dixon crossed both rivers just south of the town in October 1767 while marking Pennsylvania's southern border.

The town got its name on March 15, 1842, when Seth Stafford paid $100 for the first lot at a public land sale and won the right to name the town; he chose Point Marion for Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, the 'Swamp Fox,' who never set foot in the area.

George Washington crossed the Cheat River at its mouth here in September 1784 and wrote that the Cheat was about 125 yards wide where it met the much wider Monongahela.

Lumber was Point Marion's first principal industry, with logs floated down the Cheat River from West Virginia camps to local sawmills and planing mills; the McClain Brothers Sand Company, formed in 1890, supplied sand and gravel for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad construction.

Point Marion's population was 1,152 at the 2020 census, down from 1,159 in 2010 and 1,333 in 2000.

At the 2000 census Point Marion had 572 households in its 0.47 square miles, about 16 percent of which is water.

The Albert Gallatin Memorial Bridge carries traffic over the Monongahela River to Greene County and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 under its original name, the Marion Bridge.

About three miles north of Point Marion is Friendship Hill National Historic Site, the home of Albert Gallatin, the early American statesman for whom the local school district is named.

Point Marion is served by the Albert Gallatin Area School District, and U.S. Route 119 runs through the borough, leading northeast to Uniontown and south to Morgantown, West Virginia.