Pitcairn, Pennsylvania - 15140
N 40° 24.129 W 079° 46.611
17T E 603794 N 4473111
The Pitcairn Post Office is located at 540 Broadway Boulevard (State Route 130) in Pitcairn Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Waymark Code: WMMCJW
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2014
Views: 2
Pitcairn, Pennsylvania - 15140
ABOUT THE COMMUNITY THIS POST OFFICE SERVES
Pitcairn is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 15 miles (24 km) east of Pittsburgh, named for Robert Pitcairn, an official of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Pitcairn was the birthplace of bandleader Ted Weems and of musical instrument maker Carl Thompson, as well as early NFL football player Harry Robb. Pitcairn was also the birthplace of Dewees "Cutty" Cutshall, a trombonist who played with the Jan Savitt orchestra, Benny Goodman Band, Eddie Condon Band, and an original member of the Larson/Haggart "World's Greatest Jazz Band". His base was out of New York where he made countless records and also played at the world famous Rainbow Room.
Pitcairn Yard, which opened in 1892 and was for many decades a major switching yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad, later the Penn Central Railroad and Conrail, is now, since the 1990s, an intermodal freight transport yard for the Norfolk Southern Railway, where containers are taken off trains and transferred to trucks for delivery, or from trucks to trains.
In 1971 the first Fox's Pizza Den was opened on Broadway Boulevard in Pitcairn. It remains open to this day.
Pitcairn operates its own power distribution system and municipally owned Government-access television (GATV) cable television system.
ABOUT THE POST OFFICE
The Post Office is in a Mixed Commercial Building and offers street parking to its patrons.
POST OFFICE HOURS
Monday - Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.; 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Type of structure:: Mixed Commercial
re-enter Zip Code here:: 15140
Current Status:: Still in Use
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