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Uniontown is the county seat and largest city of Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania, resting at the base of Chestnut Ridge, the westernmost ridge of the Appalachian Mountains.

Uniontown was founded by Quaker miller Henry Beeson on July 4, 1776 — the very day the Declaration of Independence was adopted — and was first known as Beeson's Town or the Town of Union.

Uniontown became the seat of Fayette County in 1784, was incorporated as a borough in 1796, and achieved city status in 1916.

The National Road, also called the Cumberland Road and now followed by U.S. Route 40, was routed through Uniontown in the early 19th century and made it a busy stagecoach and wagon stop between Cumberland, Maryland, and Wheeling.

The 2020 census counted 9,984 people in Uniontown, spread across about 4,869 households, with only about 46% of homes owner-occupied.

During the coal and coke boom of the early 20th century, Uniontown was home to at least 13 millionaires — said to be the most per capita of any city in the United States — and its downtown held nine banks, thirteen theaters, and fourteen hotels by 1912.

Uniontown's coal-era wealth shows in its 1892 Romanesque-style Fayette County Courthouse, modeled in spirit on the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh.

General George C. Marshall, the World War II Army chief of staff and later Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense, was born in Uniontown.

Uniontown is the birthplace of the McDonald's Big Mac, first served there in 1967.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield, about 10 miles southeast of Uniontown, preserves the site of the 1754 opening battle of the French and Indian War, fought by a young George Washington.