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We would like to provide the residents of  Duquesne  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Duquesne Home page. The Duquesne Home page provides as much information as possible on Duquesne. Knowing Duquesne’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Duquesne’s Home page, you will also find Duquesne’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Duquesne has a population of 5534. 46.3% of Duquesne’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.7 are female. 28.3% of Duquesne is married and 40.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $43,162, and the average rent is $631. Household median income in Duquesne is $35,264, and the individual median income is $19,162. Duquesne’s Ethnic is the following: Black(51.2%), White(35.6%), Multiple(13.2%), Hispanic(1.1%), Native(0.1%).


The city of Duquesne was settled in 1789 and incorporated in 1891. The city derives its name from Fort Duquesne.Duquesne Works, a productive steel mill that was part of Carnegie Steel Corporation and later part of U.S. Steel, was the heart and soul of Duquesne during its brightest moments in the early 20th century.


Duquesne was home to the largest blast furnace in the world, named the "Dorothy Six". Bob Dylan´s song Duquesne Whistle (Tempest, 2012) is dedicated to it. The city's population peaked in 1930, then declined with deindustrialization beginning in the 1960s. Today a stark post-industrial landscape, Duquesne has fewer total residents (5,565 at the 2010 U.S.


census) than were the city's mill workers in 1948. According to the McKeesport Daily News, Duquesne has the worst performing schools in the state of Pennsylvania. Duquesne was designated a financially distressed municipality in 1991 by the state.


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