Editing Sewickley, Pennsylvania

{{Short description|Borough in Pennsylvania, US}}
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'''Sewickley''' is a [[Borough (Pennsylvania)|borough]] in [[Allegheny County, Pennsylvania]], United States, {{convert|12|mi|km}} west northwest of [[Pittsburgh]] along the [[Ohio River]]. It is a residential suburb of the [[Pittsburgh metropolitan area]]. The population was 3,907 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name="Census 2020">{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Sewickley_borough,_Pennsylvania?g=1600000US4269376 |title=Sewickley borough, Pennsylvania | publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=January 11, 2023 }}</ref> The [[Sewickley Bridge]] crosses the Ohio River from Sewickley to [[Moon Township]].

==Etymology==
Historian Charles A. Hanna suggested "Sewickley" came from [[Hitchiti#Language|Creek]] words for "raccoon" (sawi) and "town" (ukli).<ref>{{cite book |author=Charles Augustus Hanna |title=The Wilderness Trail: Or, The Ventures and Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders on the Allegheny Path |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SCYMAAAAYAAJ&q=sewickley |access-date=December 5, 2016 |volume=1 |year=1911 |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |location=New York and London |language=en |page=298 |chapter=The Traders at Allegheny on the Main Path; With Some Annals of Kittanning and Chartier's Town |isbn=9780598504005}}</ref> According to Hanna, the [[Hathawekela|Asswikale]] branch of the [[Shawnee]] probably borrowed their name from the neighboring [[Muscogee#Rise of the Muscogee Confederacy|Sawokli]] Muscogee before the former's migration from present-day South Carolina to Pennsylvania. Contemporary accounts from noted anthropologist [[Frederick Webb Hodge]]<ref>{{cite book |author=Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology |editor=Frederick Webb Hodge |title=Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico: A-M |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookamerica00goog |quote=sewickley. |access-date=December 6, 2016 |year=1907 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington |language=en |page=[https://archive.org/details/handbookamerica00goog/page/n537 536]}}</ref> and the Sewickley Presbyterian Church,<ref>{{cite book |author=Presbyterian Church (Sewickley, Pa.) |title=A history of the Presbyterian Church of Sewickley, Pennsylvania: consisting of certain addresses, delivered February 16-19, 1913, on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the permanent organization of the church ... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=clUJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA80 |access-date=December 5, 2016 |year=1914 |publisher=Knickerbocker Press |location=New York |pages=80–}}</ref> as well as the current Sewickley Valley Historical Society<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sewickleyhistory.org/index.php/recent-activities/86-general-history/51-the-origin-of-the-name-qsewickleyq |title=The Origin of the Name "Sewickley" |work=Sewickley Valley Historical Society |access-date=March 14, 2017}}</ref> concur to varying degrees with Hanna's etymology. Some locals alternatively consider Sewickley to be a Native American word meaning "sweet water."<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLVZITNwbzwC&q=sewickley+%22sweet+water%22&pg=PA196 |title=History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania |date=1889 |page=196 |publisher=A. Warner & Co. |isbn=9780788446146 |access-date=March 14, 2017}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:OldSewickleyTrainStation.jpg|thumb|left|Old Sewickley Train Station (1887)]]
The valley surrounding the Big Sewickley Creek was surveyed in 1785 and sold to [[American Revolutionary War]] veterans. After the [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] in 1794, settlers began to trickle in to the area, with [[flatboats]], [[keelboats]], and [[steamboats]] forming an industry along the [[Ohio River]].<ref name="Valley History">{{cite web|url=https://www.sewickleyhistory.org/index.php/history/the-sewickley-valley |title=Sewickley History: The Sewickley Valley |publisher=Sewickley Valley Historical Society |access-date=January 11, 2023 }}</ref>

In 1837, the Edgeworth Female Seminary was moved from [[Pittsburgh]] to what was then called Sewickley Bottom.<ref name="Valley History" /> The following year, [[Sewickley Academy]] was founded. Becoming a small center for education, by 1840 the community was formally established as Sewickleyville.<ref name="Valley History" /> The borough was incorporated as simply Sewickley on July 6, 1853, after growth continued as the [[Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway]] was built through the area.<ref name="Valley History" />

In 1911, the [[Sewickley Bridge]] was completed, bringing an end to the [[ferry]] industry.<ref name="Valley History" /> Ohio River Boulevard, later designated a part of [[Pennsylvania Route 65]], was completed in 1934.<ref>{{cite web |first= Adam |last= Prince |date= August 29, 2004 |url=http://www.gribblenation.com/swparoads/orb/index.html |title= History of the Ohio River Boulevard |work= SWPA Roads Project |access-date= January 11, 2023}}</ref>

==Geography==
Sewickley is located at 40°32.25′N 80°10.5′W (40.5390, −80.1807). According to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]], the borough has a total area of {{convert|1.1|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|1.0|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.1|sqmi|km2}} (11.11%) is water.

===Surrounding and adjacent neighborhoods===
Sewickley has four land borders with [[Edgeworth, Pennsylvania|Edgeworth]] to the northwest, [[Glen Osborne, Pennsylvania|Glen Osborne]] to the southeast, [[Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania|Sewickley Heights]] to the northeast, and [[Aleppo Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Aleppo Township]] to the east. Across the Ohio River, Sewickley runs adjacent with [[Moon Township, Pennsylvania|Moon Township]] and [[Coraopolis, Pennsylvania|Coraopolis]] with the Sewickley Bridge as the direct link to the former.

Along with the four land borders, plus [[Bell Acres, Pennsylvania|Bell Acres]], [[Glenfield, Pennsylvania|Glenfield]], [[Haysville, Pennsylvania|Haysville]], [[Leetsdale, Pennsylvania|Leetsdale]], [[Leet Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Leet Township]], and [[Sewickley Hills, Pennsylvania|Sewickley Hills]], Sewickley is located in the [[Quaker Valley School District]]. Together, these boroughs and townships constitute a loosely defined region in northwestern Allegheny County. Most of these municipalities – not including Leetsdale and parts of Leet Township – share the Sewickley post office and its 15143 zip code.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1860= 795
|1870= 1472
|1880= 2053
|1890= 2776
|1900= 3563
|1910= 4479
|1920= 4955
|1930= 5599
|1940= 5614
|1950= 5836
|1960= 6157
|1970= 5660
|1980= 4778
|1990= 4134
|2000= 3902
|2010= 3827
|2020= 3907
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|footnote=Sources:<ref>{{cite web |title=Population of Civil Divisions Less than Counties |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1880a_v1-12.pdf |work=1880 United States Census |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=November 24, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Population-Pennsylvania |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/36894832v3ch4.pdf |work=U.S. Census 1910 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=November 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Number and Distribution of Inhabitants:Pennsylvania-Tennessee |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/03815512v1ch09.pdf |work=Fifteenth Census |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Number of Inhabitants: Pennsylvania |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/17216604v1p40ch02.pdf |work=18th Census of the United States |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=November 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pennsylvania: Population and Housing Unit Counts |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen1990/cph2/cph-2-40.pdf |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=November 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=January 31, 2008 |title=U.S. Census website}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Estimates of the Resident Population |url=https://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2012/SUB-EST2012-3.html |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=November 22, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131120100311/http://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2012/SUB-EST2012-3.html |archive-date=November 20, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Census 2020" />
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The population of Sewickley peaked in the [[1960 United States census|1960 census]], with over 6,000 residents. As of the [[2010 United States census|2010 census]], there were 3,827 people with 1,765 households and 950 families residing in the borough's 1,965 housing units. The [[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|racial makeup]] of the borough was 88.8% White, 7.3% African American, with the remainder of other races or multi-racial. No other single race represented more than 2% of the population. Hispanics represented less than 2% of the population.<ref name="GR8">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=May 14, 2011 |title=U.S. Census website}}</ref>

According to the 2011–15 [[American Community Survey]], the median household income in the borough was about $91,735 and the median family income was $118,507. The [[per capita income]] for the borough was about $54,149.<ref name="GR8" /><!-- https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_11_5YR_DP03 -->

==Government and politics==
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|+ Presidential election results
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! Year
! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
! [[Third party (U.S. politics)|Third parties]]
|-
| '''[[2020 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|2020]]'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Primary and General Election Results |url=https://www.alleghenycounty.us/elections/election-results.aspx |website=Allegheny County |access-date=January 14, 2021}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|38% (''938'')
| style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''60%''' (''1,514'')
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2% (''54'')
|-
| '''[[2016 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|2016]]'''<ref>{{cite web |last1=EL |title=2016 Pennsylvania general election results |url=http://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/electionresultsgen2016/ |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date=October 15, 2017}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|40% (''819'')
| style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''58%''' (''1,192'')
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2% (''27'')
|-
| '''[[2012 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|2012]]'''<ref>{{cite web |last1=EL |title=2012 Allegheny County election |url=http://triblive.com/politics/2907065-74/pittsburgh-ward-hills-west-borough-braddock-east-elizabeth-north-park |website=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |access-date=October 15, 2017}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''51%''' (''1,081'')
| style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|48% (''1,004'')
| style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1% (''21'')
|}

Sewickley is divided into [[Ward (United States)|wards]] and is governed by a [[Mayoralty in the United States|mayor]] and a nine-member borough council composed of three members from each ward. Members are elected to four-year terms. The current mayor of Sewickley is George Shannon.<ref name=mayor/><ref>[https://www.sewickleyborough.org/223/Borough-Council-Mayor Borough Council & Mayor]</ref> The current members of council are Cynthia Mullins (President), Julie Barnes (Vice President), Thomas Rostek (President ''pro tempore''), Bridgett Bates, Brian Bozzo, Todd Hamer, Donna Korczyk, Todd Renner, and Anne Willoughby.

==Education==
[[File:D6d0a569e5d5ec329d0e90a089123a173ee8ff52-500.jpg|thumb|Campus of [[Sewickley Academy]]]]
There are several private schools in the area, including [[Sewickley Academy]], St. James Catholic School, Eden Christian Academy, and Montessori Children's Community. The public school system, [[Quaker Valley School District]], is renowned for an innovative laptop-technology grant received in 2000 from former Pennsylvania governor [[Tom Ridge]]. Quaker Valley School District is often regarded as one of the best and academically top-ranked school districts in the nation. In the spring of 2006, [[U.S. News & World Report]] ranked Quaker Valley High School among the top 2% of high schools nationwide. The [[Sewickley Public Library]] of the Quaker Valley School District is a [[Library Journal]] Star Library for the third year in a row <ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://features.libraryjournal.com/star-libraries/class-of-2011/americas-star-libraries-2011-top-rated-libraries/ |title=America's Star Libraries, 2011: Top-Rated Libraries |magazine=[[Library Journal]] |author=Ray Lyons and Keith Curry Lance}}</ref> and is continuously one of the top 25 largest libraries in the ''[[American City Business Journals|Pittsburgh Business Times]]'' Book of Lists.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=[[Pittsburgh Business Times]] |title=Book of Lists |year=2012 |issn=1097-1394}}</ref>

==Health care==
Sewickley is home to Sewickley Valley Hospital, which is part of the Heritage Valley Health System. Heritage Valley Sewickley provides comprehensive health care for residents of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Lawrence counties in Pennsylvania; eastern Ohio and the panhandle of West Virginia.

Heritage Valley offers medical, surgical and diagnostic services at its hospitals, community satellite facilities and in physician offices. Heritage Valley Health System's affiliated physician groups include Heritage Valley Medical Group, Tri-State Obstetrics and Gynecology and Heritage Valley Pediatrics.

==Sewickley Cemetery==
In 1860 Sewickley Cemetery was opened. The cemetery is now the resting place of more than 12,000 people. There are also two war memorials located on the burial grounds.<ref name="Trib">{{cite news |last1=Wills |first1=Rick |title=Sewickley cemetery 'centerpiece' of town's history |url=https://archive.triblive.com/news/sewickley-cemetery-centerpiece-of-towns-history/ |access-date=August 17, 2020 |publisher=Trib Total Media, LLC |date=June 3, 2010}}</ref>

===Civil War Memorial===
There is a monument celebrating the local Civil War veterans - it is 20 feet tall and was installed in 2005. There was an 1866 statue which depicted a soldier on bended knee; but that statue was damaged from many years of weather.<ref name="Trib"/>

===Tuskegee Airmen Memorial===
The Tuskegee Airmen have been memorialized in the cemetery with two large black granite blocks. the blocks are inscribed with the names of Western Pennsylvania veterans. Another block shows a depiction of two planes engaged in aerial combat.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Isenberg |first1=Robert |title=Tuskegee Airmen Honored at Sewickley Cemetery |url=https://patch.com/pennsylvania/sewickley/tuskegee-airmen-honored-at-sewickley-cemetery |access-date=August 16, 2020 |publisher=Neighbor News |date=September 9, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sewickley Cemetery now home to Tuskegee Airmen Memorial |url=https://www.wtae.com/article/sewickley-cemetery-now-home-to-tuskegee-airmen-memorial-1/7462946 |access-date=August 16, 2020 |agency=Action News Pittsburgh |publisher=Hearst Television Inc. |date=September 15, 2013}}</ref>

==Notable people==
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*[[Tom Barrasso]], former Pittsburgh Penguins goalie
*[[Robert Carothers]], tenth president of the [[University of Rhode Island]] 
*[[Michael Cerveris]], actor and musician
*[[Caitlin Clarke]], Broadway and film star
*[[Dan Cortese]], actor and former MTV VJ
*[[Sidney Crosby]], Pittsburgh Penguins player<ref>{{cite news |title=Penguins Notebook: Crosby buys house not far from Lemieux's |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10133/1057860-61.stm |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=May 13, 2010 |access-date=July 13, 2010 |first1=Shelly |last1=Anderson |first2=Dave |last2=Molinari |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516033650/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10133/1057860-61.stm |archive-date=May 16, 2010}}</ref>
*[[William Fitzsimmons (musician)|William Fitzsimmons]], musician
*[[Sergei Gonchar]], Pittsburgh Penguins assistant coach and former player
*[[Christa Harmotto]], Olympic volleyball player
*[[Franco Harris]], retired Pittsburgh Steelers player
*[[Shawn Holman]], former pitcher for the [[Detroit Tigers]]
*[[Chuck Knox]], former NFL head coach
*[[Ray Krawczyk]], professional baseball player
*[[Mario Lemieux]], former Pittsburgh Penguins player<ref>{{cite web |last=Bombulie |first=Jonathan |title=Penguins owner Mario Lemieux lists Quebec castle for $21,999,066 |date=July 24, 2018 |access-date=July 27, 2018 |url=https://triblive.com/sports/penguins/13898379-74/lemieux-lists-quebec-castle-for-21999066}}</ref>
*[[Evgeni Malkin]], Pittsburgh Penguins player
*[[Wentworth Miller]], actor, graduated from Quaker Valley High School
*[[Charles I. Murray]], [[Brigadier general (United States)|Brigadier General]], USMC; recipient of Navy Cross and Army Distinguished Service Cross
*[[Chuck Noll]], longtime NFL head coach
*[[Rissi Palmer]], country music artist
*[[Jane H. Rider]], engineer and bacteriologist
*[[Keith Rothfus]], former U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 12th district
*[[Bianca Smith]], professional baseball coach<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/pirates/2021/01/11/bianca-smith-red-sox-dartmouth-pirates-case-western-carroll-sewickley/stories/202101080161 |title=Sewickley-born Bianca Smith finally gets chance to focus on baseball alone with Red Sox |first=Mike |last=Persak |website=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |date=January 11, 2021 |access-date=February 19, 2021 |quote=Smith was born in Sewickley, but most of her upbringing took place in Grapevine, Texas.}}</ref>
*[[George R. Stewart]], author
*[[Kathleen Tessaro]], novelist
*[[Mike Tomczak]], former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback
*[[Ken Whitlock]], pro football player, first black player for the [[Toronto Argonauts]]<ref>{{cite news |first=Torsten |last=Ove |title=Star Sewickley athlete, first black Marine from area |date=February 4, 2012 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |page=A-11 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83479500/kenneth-whitlock-obituary/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=August 17, 2021}}</ref>
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==In popular culture==
In 1995, the movie ''[[Roommates (1995 film)|Roommates]]'' was filmed in and around [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] including Sewickley. 

Also in 1995, parts of the movie ''[[Houseguest]]'' were filmed on Sewickley's main streets, Broad Street and Beaver Street. The Bruegger's Bagels on Beaver Street was temporarily transformed into an operating McDonald's during shooting of ''Houseguest''. 

In 2002, parts of ''[[The Mothman Prophecies (film)|The Mothman Prophecies]]'' were filmed in the Sewickley area. 

Scenes from the Netflix show ''[[Sweet Magnolias]]'' were filmed at the intersection of Broad Street and Beaver Street. 

Scenes from ''[[Jack Reacher (film)|Jack Reacher]]'' and ''[[The Lifeguard]]'' were filmed near the Sewickley Manor apartments and condominiums.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Scott |last=Tady |date=July 10, 2012 |title='Lifeguard' movie shoots in Sewickley |newspaper=[[Beaver County Times]] |url=http://www.timesonline.com/entertainment/lifeguard-movie-shoots-in-sewickley/article_b44951ce-455b-56bf-b7b4-50b0e9a6c276.html |access-date=July 18, 2012}}</ref> 

''[[Foxcatcher]]'' was filmed in the Sewickley area in October 2012.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Kristina |last=Serafini |date=October 17, 2012 |title=Film crews back in Sewickley area |newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]] |url=http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/2780178-74/sewickley-movie-road-mcdaniel-crews-film-edgeworth-filmed-heights-shot |access-date=October 18, 2012}}</ref>

The fictional 1/24 scale town of [[Elgin Park]], by artist and photographer Michael Paul Smith, was loosely based on Sewickley.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.exploresewickley.com/event/michael-paul-smiths-elgin-park-at-sewickley-public-library/ |title=Michael Paul Smith's Elgin Park at Sewickley Public Library &#124; Explore Sewickley |access-date=December 29, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229135925/http://www.exploresewickley.com/event/michael-paul-smiths-elgin-park-at-sewickley-public-library/ |archive-date=December 29, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/pennsylvania/articles/american-life-michael-paul-smith-s-elgin-park/ |title=American Life: Michael Paul Smith's Elgin Park |date=June 27, 2013}}</ref>

Sid Lang, a primary character in Wallace Stegner's 1987 novel ''[[Crossing to Safety]]'', grew up in Sewickley.<ref>{{cite book |last=Stegner |first=Wallace |date=1987 |title=Crossing to Safety |location=New York |publisher=Random House |page=80 |isbn=978-0-375-75931-4}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of cities and towns along the Ohio River]]

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{wikivoyage inline|Sewickley}}
*[http://www.sewickleyborough.org/ Borough of Sewickley website]
*[http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/life/garden/tradition-blooms-in-garden-on-sewickley-tour-690815/ Post-Gazette article on Sewickley Garden Tour]
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