Bruceton is an unincorporated suburb of

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within

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, United States. It is part of the

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metropolitan region. Its western half is part of South Park Township and its eastern half is part of Jefferson Hills. Bruceton is the home of the Experimental Mine of the

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, which originally opened in 1910. It is also the home of the Pittsburgh Safety and Health Technology Center. The

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connected to the

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in Bruceton.It is 185 mi (or 298 km) northwest of Washington D.C.

History

For several years in the early 1940s, the town hosted almost 100 scientists to help develop the

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as a laboratory of the

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including a month-long visit by

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Unincorporated communities in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania {{AlleghenyCountyPA-geo-stub

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