Broughton, Pennsylvania

Broughton is an unincorporated community in South Park Township, Pennsylvania, United States.

Originally named Curry after Joseph Curry, a frontier physician and coroner of Allegheny County in 1810, it was renamed Broughton, to avoid confusion with the nearby Curry Hollow and the Curry in Blair County.

[1] It is located at the junction of Brownsville Road, Curry Road, and Broughton Road.

Broughton was racially integrated in the early 20th century, due to coal miners working nearby mines in Horning.

[2] It was the location of Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company's No.

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