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==History== The community was established in 1899 and was built on land owned by John Y. Woods, a farmer. In creating the name Youngwood, John Y. Woods took his own family name and combined it with his maternal grandfather's name, which was Young.<ref name="Boucher">{{cite book |last=Boucher |first=John Newton |title=Old and New Westmoreland, Volume 2 |publisher=The American Historical Society |year=1918 |location=New York, New York |pages=640 |url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/}}</ref> Youngwood owes its existence to the Southwest Branch of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]], which ran from [[Greensburg, Pennsylvania|Greensburg]] south to [[Uniontown, Pennsylvania|Uniontown]] and [[Fairchance, Pennsylvania|Fairchance]]. In 1900, a large [[classification yard]] was built for sorting railroad cars, and this railroad yard provided Youngwood's economic base for many decades. Youngwood became a borough on November 10, 1902.<ref name="PHMC">{{cite web |url=http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/Bah/dam/counties/pdfs/Westmoreland.pdf |title=Westmoreland County (Dates of incorporation of municipalities) |access-date=November 13, 2008 |publisher=Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission}}</ref> The year 1902 was also the date of Youngwood's railroad station, which still stands on Depot Street.
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