Editing Warren, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[Image:United Refining.jpg|thumb|United Refining in Warren]]
Warren was initially inhabited by Native Americans of the [[Seneca nation]]. French explorers had longstanding claims to the area which they acted to secure in an unambiguous fashion with a military-Amerindian expedition in 1749 that buried a succession of plaques claiming the territory as France's in response to the formation of the colonial [[Ohio Company]]{{mdash}}and the first of these was buried in Warren<ref name="FortsCom">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kUVAAAAYAAJ&q=Fort+Hangard&pg=PA382
|title=The frontier forts of western Pennsylvania|author=Commissioners: Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards, John M. Buckalew, George Dallas Albert, Sheldon Reynolds, Jay Gilfillan Weiser, report compiled by [[George Dallas Albert]]|others=W.S. Ray, state printer|year=1916|access-date=2010-11-29|publisher=Report By the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania|page= 4 (Introduction)|quote=Thereupon to counteract the designs of the English, the Governor-General of Canada, the Marquis de la Galissoniere, sent Celoron in 1749 down the Allegheny and Ohio riversm to take possession of the country in the name of the King of France. His command consisted of 215 French and Canadian soldiers and 55 Indians of various tribes. ... omitted ... Provided with a number of leaden plates, the left... omitted ... by means of [[Chatauqua creek]], a portage, [[Chautauqua Lake]] and [[Conewango creek]], they came on the 29th, to the Allegheny river, near the point now occupied by the town of Warren, in Warren County, Pa. The first of the leaden plates was buried at this point. (''Q.E.D.'')}}</ref> but ultimately control was transferred to the British after the [[French and Indian War]].

After the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]], General [[William Irvine (physician)|William Irvine]] and [[Andrew Ellicott]] were sent to the area to lay out a town in 1795. It was named after Major General [[Joseph Warren]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=15026|title=Profile for Warren, Pennsylvania|publisher=[[ePodunk]]|access-date=2010-05-15}}</ref>

The first permanent structure in Warren, a storehouse built by the [[Holland Land Company]], was completed in 1796. Daniel McQuay of Ireland was the first permanent inhabitant of European descent.

Lumber was the main industry from 1810&ndash;1840, as the abundance of wood and access to water made it profitable to float lumber down the Allegheny River to [[Pittsburgh]].

[[David Beaty (businessman)|David Beaty]] discovered oil in Warren in 1875 while drilling for natural gas in his wife's flower garden. Oil came to dominate the city's economy. Many of the town's large Victorian homes were built with revenue generated by the local oil and timber industries.<ref>Waples, David A. (2012). The Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia: A History from the First Discovery to the Tapping of the Marcellus Shale. pp. 20–21. ISBN 9780786470006.
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[[Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co.|Pittsburgh-Des Moines]], which was formerly located in Warren, manufactured the [[Gateway Arch]] in [[St. Louis]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-10-23|title=Pennsylvania boilermakers want you to know that they helped build the Arch, too|url=https://news.stlpublicradio.org/arts/2015-10-22/pennsylvania-boilermakers-want-you-to-know-that-they-helped-build-the-arch-too|access-date=2021-04-11|website=St. Louis Public Radio|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2017-07-04|title=New 'Baby Arch' in Pennsylvania honors boilermakers who built Gateway Arch|url=https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2017-07-04/new-baby-arch-in-pennsylvania-honors-boilermakers-who-built-gateway-arch|access-date=2021-04-11|website=St. Louis Public Radio|language=en}}</ref> Pittsburgh-Des Moines (PDM) also made railroad car tanks, storage tanks and other plate work. Several miniature replicas are located within the county, including one at the new visitors center on Routes [[U.S. Route 6 in Pennsylvania|US 6]] and [[U.S. Route 62 in Pennsylvania|US 62]]<ref name=":0" /> next to the [[Pennsylvania State Police]] barracks.

Warren has struggled through hard economic times and a steady decline in population, which peaked at nearly 15,000 in 1940. The city is attempting to bounce back with the Impact Warren project, a riverfront development project in downtown Warren. The completed project will include new townhouses and senior citizen housing, retail and commercial development, a parking garage, convention center and bus depot.{{Source?|date=May 2024}}

Major employers include Walmart, the [[United Refining Company]] (gas supplier for Kwik Fill and Red Apple Food Mart gas stations), Allegheny National Forest, [[Northwest Bank]], Whirley-Drinkworks, Superior Tire and Rubber Corp, Pennsylvania General Energy, Betts Industries, Inc, [[Blair Corporation]], [[Sheetz]], and Interlectric.

The [[Warren Historic District (Warren, Pennsylvania)|Warren Historic District]], [[A.J. Hazeltine House]], [[John P. Jefferson House]], [[Struthers Library Building]], [[Warren Armory]], [[Warren County Courthouse (Pennsylvania)|Warren County Courthouse]], [[Wetmore House (Warren, Pennsylvania)|Wetmore House]], [[Guy C. Irvine House|Guy Irvine House]]. and [[Woman's Club of Warren]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>