Place:Menallen, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States

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Menallen Township is a township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area. The population was 4,092 at the 2020 census,^[1] down from 4,205 at the 2010 census. The Uniontown Area School District serves the region.

The township is named after an older variant spelling of Moyallen, County Down, now in Northern Ireland.

Waltersburg, Keisterville, Upper Middletown, Searights, Buffington, New Salem, Haddenville, Shamrock, Upper Peanut, Lower Peanut, Dearth, Rocks Works, Newboro, and portions of Smock and Balsinger are located in this township.

History

Source:Ellis, Franklin. History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, page 657
Township Organization
Menallen was one of the original townships created by the Court of Quarter Sessions at the December term in 1783. The court decreed as follows:
"A township, beginning at the mouth of Redstone Creek; thence up the same to the mouth of Jennings' Run; thence up the same to the head of the west fork thereof; thence by a straight line to the head of the Burnt Cabin branch of Dunlap's Creek; thence down said branch and Dunlap's Creek to the road that leads to Oliver Crawford's ferry; thence along the said road to McKibben's Run; thence down the same to the beginning, to be hereafter known by the name of Menallen township."