Mahoningtown, also known as "Motown", is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the city of New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States.

[2] That same year, Pittsburgh residents Benjamin Darlington and William Hayes laid out the town on five hundred acres of property they owned.

[2] In 1844, a general store was opened by Archibald Newell, who came to Mahoningtown from Crawford County.

The employment this town gave migrant Italians, enabled arguably the most famous 20th century saint of the Catholic Church to finance his novitiate.

The family name of the employer was Myers with Pio's father living in Montgomery Avenue.