New Castle, Pennsylvania
New Castle, Pennsylvania Zambelli Plaza in Downtown recognizes the pyrotechnics trade in New Castle Zambelli Plaza in Downtown recognizes the pyrotechnics trade in New Castle New Castle is positioned in Pennsylvania New Castle - New Castle New Castle is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States, 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Pittsburgh and near the Pennsylvania Ohio border just 18 miles (29 km) east of Youngstown, Ohio.
New Castle is the principal town/city of the New Castle, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which had a populace of 91,108 in 2010.
New Castle also anchors the northwestern part of the Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-WV-OH Combined Statistical Area.
Claiming the territory for himself, he laid out what was to turn into the town of New Castle.
Stewart laid out the town of New Castle in April 1798.
In 1825, New Castle became a borough, having a populace of about 300.
New Castle became a town/city in 1869 and was headed by its first Mayor, Thomas B.
In 1849, a group of Old Order Amish families from Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, settled just north of New Castle in New Wilmington.
Business in New Castle began to flourish in the early 19th century with the assembly of the canal system, which made its way through the city.
Numerous manufacturing plants became positioned in New Castle because of the availability of transit facilities and ready access to raw material markets.
New Castle's populace swelled from 11,600 in 1890 to 28,339 in 1900, and to 38,280 in 1910, as immigrants, especially from Italy, flocked to the town/city to work in the mills and close-by limestone quarries. Italian workers of the era were incessant victims of the Black Hand society, which working blackmail and extortion to rob the workers of their pay.
In 1907 the command posts of the Black Hand for the entire region was identified in the village of Hillsville a several miles west of New Castle. By this time New Castle was one of the fastest-growing metros/cities in the country, and with the assembly of the biggest tin plate foundry in America, the town/city became the tin plate capital of the world.
The tin plate trade marked a new increase in the city's prosperity. Portrait of an American City: 200 Years of New Castle History, Lawrence County Historical Society (2:56) In 1908 New Castle was linked to Pittsburgh by the Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler and New Castle Railway, an interurban street car line.
In the 1920s, New Castle appreciateed its greatest prosperity.
New Castle is known both as the "hot dog capital of the world" and the "fireworks capital of America".
Its chili dogs are the product of Greek immigrants who came to New Castle in the early 20th century and established restaurants along with their homes.
New Castle is the County Seat of Lawrence County which has a populace of approximately 100,000. In 1998, the City of New Castle was a host town/city for the History Channel Great Race.
The first fireworks manufacturer in New Castle was Leopold Fazzoni, who owned and directed the Fazzoni Brothers Fireworks Company.
Fazzoni came to New Castle from Italy in 1886 and worked in the tin mills to earn enough cash to start his own business.
Started by Constantino Vitale in Italy in 1889, Constantino immigrated to New Castle closing his company there in the 1920s.
Also positioned in New Castle is Zambelli Fireworks, which was established in New Castle.
New Castle has recently opened Zambelli Plaza near the Cascade Center in 2007 with respect to the Zambelli family's accomplishments. New Castle is positioned at 40 58 50 N 80 20 40 W (40.997325, 80.344556), along the Shenango River at the mouth of Neshannock Creek.
The Pier I Complex Building in downtown New Castle Downtown New Castle is presently undergoing a redevelopment centered around the Cascade Center.
Info - Cision, a telemarketing services company, restored the former New Castle Dry Goods Co.
New Castle and close-by Pittsburgh are both positioned in the Rust Belt The town/city itself is served by the New Castle Area School District, with a several townships in the county served by their respective school districts.
New Castle Area also serves close-by Taylor Township, which includes Mahoningtown and West Pittsburg .
Lockley Early Learning Center (K-1-2), George Washington Intermediate (3-6), and the New Castle Junior-Senior High School (7-12). New Castle and all of Lawrence County is served by the New Castle Christian Academy on Albert Street in between Sumner Avenue and Clen-Moore Boulevard, serving students from Pre-K to 9th grade.
New Castle is primarily served by five post-secondary education facilities: the New Castle Beauty School for cosmetology students in downtown, the New Castle School of Trades for technical trades in Pulaski Township, the Jameson School of Nursing (owned and directed by UPMC Jameson[disambiguation needed]) inside the city, and the Lawrence County branch of Butler County Community College, which opened in 2008 in Union Township and serves as a major improve college to Lawrence County.
Among more traditional four-year universities inside short driving distance includes Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Grove City College in Grove City, Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, Westminster College in New Wilmington, and Youngstown State University just outside Downtown Youngstown.
New Castle has enhance transit in the form of the New Castle Transit Authority, which provides bus service to patrons around the town/city and makes three daily trips to Pittsburgh.
Route 422 are the primary routes running through the city, while two more primary routes Pennsylvania Route 65 and U.S.
Pennsylvania Route 108 and Pennsylvania Route 168 also run through the city.
422, runs through the city, ending on each side of the town/city when the chief 422 leaves the New Castle Bypass.
422 are briefly concurrent with each other on the New Castle Bypass, though south of New Castle until Chippewa Township near Beaver Falls, I-376 is tolled by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
The closest airport is the New Castle Municipal Airport which is a purely municipal airport with no commercial service.
Most inhabitants of New Castle use Pittsburgh International Airport which is about 42 miles (68 km) from downtown.
The small-town improve is served by the New Castle News, a journal presented in the afternoon Monday-Friday.
On the weekends, the paper prints the New Castle News Weekend, presented on Saturday mornings.
The region is served by both the Pittsburgh and Youngstown tv stations, with regular news coverage in the region from both.
Even with being considerably closer to Youngstown, New Castle is part of the Pittsburgh DMA by Nielsen Media Research.
New Castle was home to the first ABC tv affiliate in Western Pennsylvania when WKST-TV signed on in 1953, as WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh did not sign on until 1958 and WJET-TV did not sign on in Erie until 1966.
NCTV45 is the only station that presently operates as an Internet Television Station in New Castle, Pennsylvania.
The mission of NCTV45 is to furnish a range of programming relevant to the City of New Castle and Lawrence County that informs, educates and entertains.
WNWW Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA operates channel 183 on Comcast cable are presently the only TV broadcast outlets in Lawrence County.
New Castle is home to two commercial AM stations: talk station WKST 1200 and sports talk station WJST AM 1280, the latter being a Fox Sports Radio affiliate.
For FM, WKPL FM 92.1, first a full-time nation music station called WFEM or C92 then rebranded as Classic Gold an oldies station, was licensed in New Castle before its license was moved back to Ellwood City in 2004, though it still includes New Castle as one of its small-town communities as part of its FCC-mandated station identification.
Songs must be appropriate for a general audience.NCTV45.com and NCRadio450 is in downtown New Castle.
The Cascade Center presently features two restaurants and a small-town stage theater, and plans are in progress to turn the complex into New Castle's version of Station Square in Pittsburgh.
The Cascade Center itself is titled after Cascade Park, positioned on the outskirts of the city's East Side in Shenango Township along Pennsylvania Route 65.
The New Castle Playhouse, a improve theatre, is positioned along Long Avenue and puts on a several shows a year, and is one of the only such theatres between Youngstown and theatre-rich Pittsburgh.
New Castle is also a short drive from Mc - Connells Mill State Park in Slippery Rock Township and neighboring Moraine State Park in Muddy Creek Township in Butler County.
In the 2011 movie, Super 8, New Castle, Pennsylvania is referenced as the "fireworks capital of the world." New Castle is the subject of the true crime blog 'Small Town Noir' which uses mug shots taken in New Castle between 1930 and 1960, and which were rescued when the town's police department threw them out.
The knowledge on the images comes from the New Castle News.
New Castle has a large Arab-American populace whose culture is visible throughout the community.
Although many other Rust Belt metros/cities contain large Arab-American populations, New Castle is unique for its large populace of Alawite Muslims from Syria.
Bruce Clark, experienced football player with the New Orleans Saints and Kansas City Chiefs and Penn State All-American House of Representatives from New Castle Gabbie Hanna, born in New Castle, You - Tube personality.
Donnie Iris, born in New Castle (February 28, 1943), but interval up in close-by Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, modern singer and guitarist, best known for his work with the Jaggerz, Wild Cherry and Donnie Iris and the Cruisers.
Lance Nimmo, NFL player with Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New York Jets, Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots "Lawrence County Historical Society - History of New Castle".
New Castle Area School District.
"The Syrian Community in New Castle and Its Unique Alawi Component, 1900-1940".
"Obituary: Robert Sterling / New Castle native was cast member in TV's 'Topper'".
Wikimedia Commons has media related to New Castle, Pennsylvania.
Valley Town (1940), a documentary on unemployment amid the Great Depression, filmed in New Castle "New Castle, a borough and the capital of Lawrence co., Pennsylvania".
New Castle Police Department
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