Editing Dormont, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[Image:dormontpool.jpg|thumb|The Dormont Pool celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020.]]
The territory in which Dormont Borough is situated was held by the [[Delaware people|Delaware]] and [[Shawnee]] tribes until 1768, when the territory was part of the transaction in which [[Fort Stanwix]] was purchased from the [[Iroquois|Six Nations]]. In following years, Dormont's area was part of [[Cumberland County, Pennsylvania|Cumberland County]], Pitt Township in [[Bedford County, Pennsylvania|Bedford County]], Penn Township in [[Washington County, Pennsylvania|Washington County]], and finally, [[St. Clair Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|St. Clair Township]] in Allegheny County in 1788.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boro.dormont.pa.us/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=AF2F7BCA-1489-4CF5-BBA1-6A0218FB280A|title=History of Dormont|access-date=2015-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007070332/http://www.boro.dormont.pa.us/index.asp?SEC=AF2F7BCA-1489-4CF5-BBA1-6A0218FB280A&Type=B_BASIC|archive-date=2015-10-07|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Dormont was originally fashioned from parts of [[Scott Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Scott]] and Union Townships. An order of incorporation was signed on March 31, 1909, making Dormont the first independent municipality in the [[South Hills (Pennsylvania)|South Hills]] of Allegheny County. Municipal officials initially wanted to name the new community "Mt. Lebanon"; however, objections were raised by their as yet unincorporated neighbors to the south, who eventually adopted the name. Instead, the name Dormont was chosen from the Americanized version of the French term "mont d'or", loosely translated as "Mountain of Gold."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a4NIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=G24DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7226%2C2342598 | title=Town names carry bit of history | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date=May 10, 1984 | access-date=October 31, 2015 | author=Ackerman, Jan | page=6}}</ref>

The first election of borough officials was held on April 27, 1909. Dormont later annexed part of Scott Township in 1909, two additional parts of Union Township in 1913 and 1916, and a portion of [[Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania|Mt. Lebanon Township]] in January 1921, giving it a total area of just less than one square mile. With the construction of the streetcar tunnel and the [[Liberty Tunnel]]s came rapid growth.

Once the borough of Dormont was incorporated in 1909, at least 30 different streets were given new names. Today, all but two of Dormont's "side streets" are designated as avenues, the exceptions being Memorial Drive and Park Blvd. Two of Dormont's mainline streets, Scott Road and McFarland Road, are two-lane "borough line" streets in which one lane is located in Dormont and the other in Mt. Lebanon. The northern stretch of another "borough line" street, McNeilly Avenue, runs through Dormont on one side and the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Brookline on the other. Before the incorporation and street name changes, Dormont actually had four designated "streets": Beech St. (Dwight Ave.), Sycamore St. (Philadelphia Ave.), Sylvester St. (Texas Ave.) and "C" St. (Miles Ave.).

In June 2020, the Dormont Borough Council approved a comprehensive plan for the next ten years, which includes provisions for land use, housing, transportation, economic development, parks and recreation, community facilities, historic preservation, sustainability, and public engagement.<ref name="thealmanac.net">{{cite web |url=https://thealmanac.net/news/dormont-borough-council-approves-comprehensive-plan/article_9a8d6c0c-a5a7-11ea-8f0f-9b6f2c1e5b4d.html |title=Dormont Borough Council approves comprehensive plan |publisher=}}</ref> The council also adopted a $9.8 million budget for 2021 without a tax increase for residents.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thealmanac.net/news/dormont-borough-council-adopts-2021-budget-with-no-tax-increase/article_3f8d2c7e-3f9b-11eb-a6f4-df7e7a2d8c8b.html |title=Dormont Borough Council adopts 2021 budget with no tax increase |publisher=}}</ref> The Keystone Oaks School District, after a stint of fully remote learning, resumed in-person instruction for all students starting in February 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thealmanac.net/news/keystone-oaks-to-resume-in-person-instruction-feb-1/article_9c5e8e88-5b4a-11eb-a3d6-df2c6d2f0a9a.html |title=Keystone Oaks to resume in-person instruction Feb. 1 |publisher=}}</ref>