Incorporated: As a borough on Jan. 10, 1891

Location: Central Westmoreland County, 39 miles southeast of Downtown Pittsburgh; South Greensburg covers 0.7 of a square mile and is accessed primarily by Routes 119 and 30

Population: 2,217 (estimated June 2008, U.S. Census)

Government: Mayor-council

Mayor: Betty Dobies

Secretary: Lee Kunkle

Median price of a home: $76,000 after the fourth quarter of 2009, down from $90,000 a year earlier

Municipal phone, website: 724-837-8858; www.southgreensburg.org

School district: Greensburg Salem, 724-832-2901, greensburgsalem.org

History: South Greensburg is not part of Greensburg. It doesn't even border the city, separated by Southwest Greensburg Borough to the north.

South Greensburg was known initially as Rughtown. Michael Rugh acquired the title to 229.25 acres in 1780 and ran a farm that eventually was handed down to his son and then his grandson. The family house, built during the Civil War, still stands at 1213 Broad St.

George Franklin Huff, an industrialist, bought 189 acres of the farm in the 1870s. He sold the land in 1881 to Greensburg Coal and Coke Co., later Keystone Coal and Coke Co., which established a mine and a brickyard on Broad Street. Fifty homes for workers were constructed in 1888 in a community that had become known as Huff, Huff's Station or Hufftown.

A trolley line to Greensburg was built on Broad Street in 1890. West Penn Railways eventually bought that line and operated trolleys until 1952.

For nearly a century -- 1888 to 1980 -- Walworth Valves was South Greensburg's primary employer. The factory was run by Kelly & Jones Co. until Walworth Co. bought it in 1925. The complex covered 31 acres and had a workforce of 1,500 at its peak. The land was cleared and is now the site of the Wellington Square office building plant and a number of commercial businesses.

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