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Butler, PA - History
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Welcome to the Butler Home page. The Butler Home page provides as much information as possible on Butler. Knowing Butler’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Butler’s Home page, you will also find Butler’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Butler has a population of 13008. 50.8% of Butler’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.2 are female. 33.3% of Butler is married and 43.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $93,329, and the average rent is $654. Household median income in Butler is $32,746, and the individual median income is $23,225. Butler’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.4%), Multiple(4.7%), Hispanic(3.7%), Black(2.5%), Other(1.4%), Asian(1%), Native(0.1%).
In its heyday, the city of Butler was a "Steel Belt" manufacturing and industrial area. It remains home to an AK Steel factory. In 1902, the Standard Steel Car Company opened one of its largest railcar manufacturing facilities in Butler. It was here that some of the first all-steel rail cars were built.
Diamond Jim Brady, the legendary financier, gourmand and gemophile, established the Standard Steel Car Company in 1902, which merged with the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1934, creating Pullman-Standard, a monopoly that was eventually broken by the government. About 2,500 workers produced 60 steel-bed railroad cars per day in 1902.
Eastern European immigrants were lured to the area in the early 20th century with the promise of reliable jobs, which offered company housing and a company store. The company constructed a baseball park which was the home of a New York Yankees farm team. The steel workers of Butler made artillery and naval shells during World War II.The Pullman-Standard plant closed in 1982, but was purchased in 1984 by Trinity Industries.
Trinity Industries left the factory in 1993, and the factory was completely demolished in 2005. The site is now occupied by a vacant strip mall, as well as the Butler Transit Authority inter-modal facility. In 2011 the BTA moved a covered hopper rail-car, built in 1974, to the bus terminal in recognition of the former Pullman-Standard plant.The American Austin Car Company (1929–1941) was headquartered in the area.
Later the firm changed its name to American Bantam Car Company. Bantam was an early producer of small fuel-efficient vehicles through the 1930s. In 1940, lead engineer Karl Probst led Bantam design team to create what later was termed the iconic WWII Jeep. Sizeable military contracts eventually went to Willys and Ford, as the Bantam factory had floundered.
Today, a controversial monument stands near the courthouse commemorating Bantam's "creation of the Jeep". Butler is home to one of the early Ford dealerships, established in 1918 and still extant.At one point, the Rainbow Rubber Company, in the late 1930s, made "Rubrtoy" replicas of Oldsmobiles along with many other rubber toys.In the 1950s, Butler became one of the first cities to install bells at crosswalks, a common practice today.
Pedestrians could cross in either direction. The city was linked to Pittsburgh via Mars, Pennsylvania, in 1907 by the Pittsburgh and Butler Street Railway, and to Evans City in 1908 by the Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler and New Castle Railway, both interurban trolley lines. The Mars route closed in April 1931, followed by the Evans City line on August 15, 1931, with the trolleys replaced by buses. Like most of the region, by the end of the 1970s, the local economy changed dramatically.
Manufacturing virtually ended and well-paying jobs became scarce.
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