Editing Bethel Park, Pennsylvania (section)

== History ==
[[File:Bethel Park armored car site.jpg|thumb|left|An eastbound car is near the location of the first US armored car robbery]] 
The area that is now Bethel Park was originally settled around 1800 and was established as Bethel Township in 1886. It was named after [[Bethel Presbyterian Church (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania)|Bethel Presbyterian Church]], which in turn was named after the ancient [[Israelite]] sanctuary of [[Bethel]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a4NIAAAAIBAJ&pg=7226%2C2342598 | title=Town names carry bit of history | publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date=May 10, 1984 | access-date=31 October 2015 | author=Jan Ackerman | page=6}}</ref> Bethel Park was incorporated as a borough on 17 March 1949.<ref name="phmc">{{cite web| url =http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/counties/pdfs/Allegheny.pdf | title = Allegheny County - 2nd Class | access-date = 2007-08-25}}</ref>

The first armored car robbery in the U.S. occurred in Bethel Park on 11 March 1927, when a Brinks truck was attacked while heading towards the Coverdale Mine about a mile away.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wqed.org/mag/columns/sebak/2007/0307_armored_car.shtml |title=Pittsburgh Magazine: March 2007: Rick Sebak: Gangster History in Bethel Park! |access-date=2009-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080715121217/http://www.wqed.org/mag/columns/sebak/2007/0307_armored_car.html |archive-date=2008-07-15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Bandits Dynamite Armored Pay Car and Take $104,250 |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0C13FA3C591B7A93C0A81788D85F438285F9&scp=18&sq=Coverdale,%20Pennsylvania&st=cse |access-date=2009-01-10 | newspaper=The New York Times | date=12 March 1927}}</ref> [[Paul Jaworski]] and [[the Flathead gang]] destroyed the road with dynamite to steal a mining payroll.<ref>{{cite web |author=Rick Sebak |title=Gangster History in Bethel Park! |url=http://www.wqed.org/mag/columns/sebak/2007/0307_armored_car.shtml |access-date=2009-01-10 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080715121217/http://www.wqed.org/mag/columns/sebak/2007/0307_armored_car.shtml |archive-date = 2008-07-15}}</ref>