West Newton, Pennsylvania
West Newton, located 24.5 miles (39.4 km) southeast of Pittsburgh, is a borough in Westmoreland County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Formerly, the manufacture of radiators and boilers were the chief industries. The population was 2,633 at the 2010 census.
East Main Street
Youghiogheny River at West Newton
Pioneers building the flatboat, Adventure Galley, at Sumrill's Ferry (present-day West Newton, Pennsylvania) during March 1788
Image: Main Street, West Newton, PA
The Youghiogheny River, or the Yough for short, is a 134-mile-long (216 km) tributary of the Monongahela River in West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. It drains an area on the west side of the Allegheny Mountains northward into Pennsylvania, providing a small watershed in extreme western Maryland into the tributaries of the Mississippi River. Youghiogheny is a Lenape word meaning "a stream flowing in a contrary direction".
Ohiopyle Falls on the Youghiogheny in Ohiopyle State Park in Pennsylvania
Youghiogheny Lake and Dam on the Youghiogheny River near Confluence, Pennsylvania
The Lower Yough: One of the most actively run sections of whitewater east of the Mississippi River
Youghiogheny River at West Newton, Pennsylvania
