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    McKeesport, Pennsylvania

    City in Pennsylvania, United States

    McKeesport is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. A suburb of Pittsburgh, it is situated at the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers.

    The population was 17,727 as of the 2020 census.

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    History

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    Early history

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    David McKee emigrated from Scotland and was the first permanent white settler at the forks of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny Rivers, the site of present-day McKeesport, in 1755.

    Around the time of the French and Indian Wars, George Washington often came to McKeesport to visit his friend, Queen Alliquippa, a Seneca Indian ruler. The Colonial Government granted David McKee exclusive right of ferrage over those rivers on April 3, 1769, called "McKee's Port".[3]

    His son, John McKee, an original settler of Philadelphia, built a log cabin at this location.

    After taking over his father's local river ferry business, he devised a plan for a city to be called McKee's Port in 1795.[4] John set out his proposal in the Pittsburgh Gazette, as par

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