Alverton, Pennsylvania

Alverton is an unincorporated community in East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.^[1] The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 981, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of Mount Pleasant. Alverton has a post office, with ZIP Code 15612.^[2][3]

Alverton, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
Sign at the entrance of the village of Alverton from Fenton Road.
Alverton
Coordinates: 40°08′24″N 79°35′14″W
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Westmoreland
Elevation	1,099 ft (335 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP Code	15612
Area codes	724, 878
GNIS feature ID	1168243[1]

History

Fenton Road connects Alverton to downtown East Huntingdon Township.

According to historian John Boucher, the village was originally called Stonerville. A Mennonite congregation built a log meeting house there in the early 1800s, and a brick meeting house in 1841.^[4]

Boucher states that Alverton was located along the "South-West Branch" of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which began at Greensburg.^[5]

The village was the site of two coal mines, known as Donnelly and Mayfield, which began operations in 1878. At one point, more than three hundred people worked in those two mines. Coke ovens were also located at the site. Coking continued at Alverton until 1983.

A study published in 1994 found seven company-built houses and a former hotel, thought to date to the 1880s and 1900 respectively, still in existence, together with coke ovens of more recent vintage.^[6][7]

Alverton is where Southmoreland High School is located, as well as Southmoreland Primary Center. They are a part of the Southmoreland School District.

References

1. "Alverton". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. United States Postal Service. "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved July 2, 2017.
3. "Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code". United States Postal Service. Archived from the original on April 28, 2019. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
4. Boucher, John Newton (1906). History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 309. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
5. Boucher op cit. p. 283.
6. Boucher op cit page XXXII.
7. Muller, Edward K. and Carlisle, Ronald C. (1994). "WESTMORELAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites". National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. pp. 47–49.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)