Scottdale is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States, 32 miles (51 km) southeast of Pittsburgh.

It had steel and iron pipe mills, brass and silver works, a casket factory, a large milk-pasteurizing plant, and machine shops; all of the aforementioned are presently defunct.

Scottdale is notable for its economic decline from a formerly prosperous coke-town into an archetypal Rust Belt town.

Duraloy Technologies, "a supplier of specialty high alloy, centrifugal and static cast components and assemblies"[3] is the last remnant of Scottdale's steel related prosperity.

It is difficult to identify when the first non-Indian settler arrived in what is now the Borough of Scottdale, although the area witnessed an influx of Scotch-Irish immigrants in the late 1770s.

Two brothers who were local farmers, Peter and Jacob Loucks, realized the impact the railroads could have on the area and laid out a small townsite consisting of 24 lots, which went on sale in 1872.

Scottdale’s factories in the early 20th century also produced iron pipe, tin, knives, steam engines, and caskets.

[4] The West Overton Museum in Scottdale is the only pre-Civil War village still intact today in Pennsylvania.

It encompasses five and a half miles of abandoned railroad and is maintained by volunteers from the Coal and Coke Chapter of the Regional Trail Corporation.

The mall was set to be located on Pittsburgh and North Broadway Streets in downtown Scottdale with a two pump gas station next-door.

[12] By December 1970, the area was still not developed, with much of the businesses on the left side of Pittsburgh street being torn down to make room for the shopping plaza.

Lanes of travel to access the area were left unpaved and only one lone bid had been accepted on space in the plaza, that being for the gas station that was to open next-door.

[15] Progress was finally made on the plaza in October 1974 when the borough signed a contract with a Uniontown based company to begin building on the site.

[17] In the decades since the failed mall project, Scottdale has opened a Rite-Aid Pharmacy, a YMCA Pool, public library and Veteran Memorial in place of the former development.

Since 1973, the Scottdale Fall Festival has hosted multiple outdoor vendors, music performances and an annual parade which is participated in by local businesses as well as high school groups such as the Southmoreland football team and marching band.

[22] In 1805, the first schoolhouse in the area was built adjacent from Gaut’s Dairy Farm in rural Scottdale, near Alverton.

The original high school building was constructed in the late 1800's on the site of present day Chestnut Street Park.

With the advent of the new school building, Scottdale's student body became known as the "Scotties" and began using the Scottish Terrier mascot with white and blue colors to represent the district.

The new site, located North Chestnut Street, for the renamed Scottdale Joint High School was purchased on June 22, 1953.

[28] According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough encompasses a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.1 km2), all land.

The neighborhood located just past the Everson bridge from Garfield Avenue to Scottdale Cemetery is referred to locally as “Brown Town”.