Editing Brownsville, Pennsylvania (section)

==Features==
[[Dunlap's Creek Bridge]] (1839) under part of the level stretch of Market Street, carrying old [[U.S. Route 40 in Pennsylvania|U.S. Route 40]] over [[Dunlap's Creek]] in Brownsville, is the nation's oldest [[cast iron]] bridge in existence. (Capt. [[Richard Delafield]], engineer; John Snowdon and John Herbertson, foundrymen)

The [[Flatiron Building (Brownsville, Pennsylvania)|Flatiron Building]] (c. 1830), constructed as a business building in thriving 19th-century Brownsville, is one of the oldest, most intact iron commercial structures west of the [[Allegheny Mountains]]. Over its history, it has housed private commercial entities as well as public, such as a post office. It is the unofficial "prototype" for the flatiron buildings seen across the United States. The most notable is the [[Flatiron Building]] in Market Square in New York City.

After nearly being demolished, the building was saved by the [http://www.barcpa.org Brownsville Area Revitalization Corporation (BARC)]. Throughout two decades, via private and public grants, BARC has restored the Flatiron Building as an historic asset to Brownsville. The Flatiron Building Heritage Center, located within the building at 69 Market Street, holds artifacts from Brownsville's heyday, as well as displays about the community's important [[coal]] and [[Coke (fuel)|coke]] heritage. The [[Frank L. Melega]] Art Museum, located with the Heritage Center, displays many examples of this local southwestern Pennsylvanian's famous artwork, depicting the coal and coke era in the surrounding tri-state region.<ref>[http://www.flatironcenter.com/heritage_center.htm "BARC Flatiron Building"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415154351/http://www.flatironcenter.com/heritage_center.htm |date=April 15, 2009 }}, Flatiron Center.</ref>

In addition to the Dunlap's Creek Bridge, Brownsville is the location of other properties on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. They are [[Bowman's Castle]] (Nemacolin Castle), [[Brownsville Bridge]], [[St. Peter's Church (Brownsville, Pennsylvania)|St. Peter's Church]], and [[Thomas H. Thompson House]]. There are two national [[Historic districts in the United States|historic districts]]: the [[Brownsville Commercial Historic District]] and [[Brownsville Northside Historic District]].<ref>{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>