Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Webster, PA

Webster is a census-designated place in Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, located along Pennsylvania Route 906 on the Monongahela River.

Webster was laid out in 1833 by Benjamin Beazell and named for the celebrated Federalist statesman Daniel Webster, shortly after Webster's famous 1830 Senate reply to Robert Y. Hayne.

Local histories trace settlement at Webster to 1773, when German immigrant Andrew Beazell, Benjamin's father, began farming the fertile riverfront land.

In its heyday Webster grew into a steamboat-building and boat-yard town with more than 2,000 residents, and city dwellers from Pittsburgh, 30 miles north, traveled downriver by boat to picnic along its shoreline.

The 2010 census counted 255 residents in Webster, and the 2020 census counted 237.

Webster's fortunes faded after U.S. Steel began building its giant Donora mill across the Monongahela River in 1901, and the village later endured the deadly October 1948 Donora smog that drifted across the river valley.

After steamboat building declined, Webster's economy turned to coal mining, and the area around the village holds abundant coal, limestone, and building stone.