Braddock

Town in southwest Pennsylvania, an industrial suburb of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River, 11 km/7 mi southeast of Pittsburgh; population (1990) 4,700. It grew up in the 1870s around Andrew Carnegie's Edgar Thompson Steel Works, where the Bessemer process was introduced and perfected. Although still a steel town, it has declined economically in recent decades, losing most of its population.

It was the site of British commander Edward Braddock's defeat in the French and Indian War in 1755.