Editing Brownsville, Pennsylvania (section)

==Infrastructure==
[[File:Municipal building in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|right|Municipal building]]
===Transportation===
[[File:Brownsville PA.jpg|thumb|Aerial photo of Brownsville, looking over the Monongahela River]]
Brownsville is located on the banks of the [[Monongahela River]], a major tributary of the [[Ohio River]], one of North America's most important waterways. The Monongahela is fully navigable at Brownsville, and offers inexpensive barge transportation to [[Chicago]], [[New Orleans]], [[St. Marks, Florida|St. Marks]] in Florida, [[Minneapolis]], [[Tulsa, Oklahoma|Tulsa]], [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], [[Houston]], and [[Brownsville, Texas]], on the border with Mexico. The shipyards of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, provided Captain Richard King of Brownsville, Texas (founder of the King Ranch), with powerful new-built riverboats to navigate the fast currents of the [[Rio Grande]] in 1849.

Brownsville is connected to the satellite community of [[West Brownsville, Pennsylvania|West Brownsville]] (in [[Washington County, Pennsylvania|Washington County]]) by the [[Brownsville Bridge]] completed in 1914, which spans the Monongahela River. In 1960, the [[Lane Bane Bridge]] was constructed just downstream, and path of [[U.S. Route 40 in Pennsylvania|U.S. Route 40]] was moved to the new high-level structure and new four lane highway by-passing old Route 40 until the two merged in the small bedroom neighborhood known locally as [[Malden, Pennsylvania|Malden]].{{efn |Malden is a hamlet of four groups of a few dozen homes each plus those lining Old [[U.S. Route 40]], the [[National Road]], with the two largest suburban-style [[housing development]]s ranged off to either side of the [[Cumberland Road|old 40-highway]] after it has climbed out of the valley of the Monongahela and reached a mostly flat stretch from east to west}}<ref>Malden mailing addresses use RD#2 Brownsville as postal addresses, but the lands and school systems are administered as part of Washington, County. It lies nearly equidistant from [[Centerville, Washington County, Pennsylvania|Centerville]], Brownsville, and [[California, Pennsylvania|California]].</ref> In the heyday of Conestoga wagon migration travels and with the congestion of Brownsville's hilly terrain, the flat lands about Malden just two-to-three further on offered rare open spaces for west-bound travelers to camp and recuperate from the rigorous mountain descent.
 
Before the highway construction of the late 1950s was completed in the early 60s, two additional branchlike housing concentrations existed, the lined either side of "California Road" which intersected Old U.S. 40 in the heart of the small business district at landmarks, Paci's Restaurant and [[Drive-in theater|Cuppies Drive-In Theatre]];<ref>Landmark {{plain link|http://drive-ins.com/theater/patmald/malden-drive-in-theater-west-brownsville-pa#.V8XFWEeOys0|Cuppies Drive-In}}, later renamed the Malden Drive-in under new management, operated for about 60 years before 2007, and was a well-known landmark in four counties of Southwestern Pennsylvania.</ref><ref>[http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/10344 www.cinematreasures.org/theaters/10344]</ref> the former set in a 17th-century stone Inn. The fourth concentration of housing extended from beside and beyond Cuppies Drive-In for over a mile either side of U.S. 40, now once again, single lane secondary highway. The community has few stores and several housing developments sited along a hilly plateau above the river valleys. The California Area High School is in part sited within parts of Malden.