Editing Apollo, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[File:Apollo, Pa LCCN2007661531.tif|thumb|left|500px|Panorama of Apollo, 1909]]
The area was sectioned in 1769, following the [[Treaty of Fort Stanwix]], as a farm known as "Warren's Sleeping Place", named after a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] trader from the area named Edward Warren. It was soon surveyed and divided into lots, with the town of '''Warren''' officially being added to the [[Greensburg, Pennsylvania|Greensburg]] register on November 9, 1816.<ref name="Apollo History" /> The [[Drake Log Cabin|log cabin home of the Drake family]] still stands in the area, and is one of the oldest buildings in Armstrong County.

With the introduction of the post office, the area was officially renamed from Warren to '''Apollo''' in 1848 to avoid confusion with the post office of [[Warren, Pennsylvania|another town]] in Pennsylvania of the same name.<ref name="Apollo History">{{cite book|last=Henry|first=Thomas James|title=1816-1916; History of Apollo, Pennsylvania: The Year of a Hundred Years|year=1916|publisher=The News-Record Pub. Co|location=Apollo, Pennsylvania|pages=18–22, 25, 41, 54|url=https://archive.org/stream/18161916historyo00henr/18161916historyo00henr_djvu.txt|access-date=August 6, 2013}}</ref> The present name is after [[Apollo]], the Greek and Roman god of music, healing, light, prophecy and enlightenment.<ref>{{cite book|last=Espenshade|first=Abraham Howry|title=Pennsylvania Place Names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012934249&view=1up&seq=308|year=1925|publisher=Evangelical Press|isbn=978-0-8063-0416-8|page=304}}</ref>

By the late 19th century the Apollo Iron & Steel Company dominated the local economy. In 1895, the company's president, George Gibson McMurtry, hired prominent landscape architects [[Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot]] to design a town for Apollo Iron & Steel's workers. The result was the neighboring town of [[Vandergrift, Pennsylvania|Vandergrift]]. In 1911, Apollo became home to the first public library in Armstrong County.

The Roaring Run Recreation Area is located one mile upriver (southeast) of Apollo and can be accessed via the Apollo Kiski River Trail. Stone remnants of the Western Division of the Pennsylvania Mainline Canal, that passed through Apollo and operated between 1825 and 1850, can be found along the Roaring Run Trail. The canal made use of the Kiskiminetas River using a system of slackwater dams, and the boats floated on the river, entering a lock located at the mouth of Roaring Run. From there the canal ran along the path of the current Roaring Run Trail, through the entire length of the borough, entering the Kiskiminetas River again across the river from where the current borough of [[East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania|East Vandergrift]] is situated.

The borough suffered significant damage in the [[Pittsburgh flood of 1936|1936 St. Patrick's Day flood]]. The Kiskiminetas River rose more than 15 feet above flood stage. 95 area homes were damaged or washed away and the borough's bridge was destroyed, according to the Apollo Area Historical Society.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Thomas |first1=Mary Ann |title=Tour to focus on historic flooding |url=https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/apollo-area-historical-society-revisits-the-st-patrick-days-flood-of-1936/ |publisher=Tribune-Review |date=February 28, 2022}}</ref>

The [[Drake Log Cabin]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1983.<ref>{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>