In addition to being the organizing force behind saving the Braddock Carnegie Library, the Braddock’s Field Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the history surrounding General Braddock and the French and Indian War.
Braddock
What is Braddock?
ONCE: A flourishing city of 20,000 residents. Home to Andrew Carnegie’s first steel mill and free library. A place of wealth, amenities, and expansive shopping districts that lit up the night for miles to see. A place with dozens of churches, schools, theaters, furniture stores, restaurants, and breweries. A place people flocked to from all around the region.
NOW: A town of 2,500 residents. A malignantly beautiful place, renamed “Braddocc” by its young and disenfranchised in ironic celebration of the town’s Crips. The ruins of Carnegie’s first steel mill stand as a reminder of another age while Carnegie’s first library – the center of the community – struggles to stay alive. No theaters. No furniture stores. No breweries or restaurants.
OPPORTUNITY: Richly historic, large enough to matter, small enough to impact, Braddock presents an unparalleled opportunity for the urban pioneer, artist, or misfit to join in building a new kind of community.
For those who seek it, this is the frontier.
Organizations
The Braddock's Field Historical Society is housed within the Braddock Carnegie Library (the first Carnegie Library built in the United States in 1889, second in the world after a Carnegie Library was built in Andrew Carnegie's hometown of Dunfermline, Scotland in 1881).