Langeloth, Pennsylvania
Encyclopedia
Langeloth is an unincorporated community
in Smith Township, Washington County
, Pennsylvania
, United States
. Langeloth has been assigned the ZIP code
15054.
Langeloth began as a coal
mining
company town
. Langeloth has three businesses; Vallina's Market, Riddell/All American, and Langeloth Metallurgical Company. It is also the birthplace of noted former college football
coach Barry Alvarez
. Langeloth is also home to the regionally renowned Langeloth Softball League, also known as LSB. Games are played at the Gus Barbush Memorial park where hundreds of locals gather to drink beer outside the outfield fence. The league slogan is, "We play fastpitch."
Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...
in Smith Township, Washington County
Washington County, Pennsylvania
-Government and politics:As of November 2008, there are 152,534 registered voters in Washington County .* Democratic: 89,027 * Republican: 49,025 * Other Parties: 14,482...
, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Langeloth has been assigned the ZIP code
ZIP Code
ZIP codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service since 1963. The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, is properly written in capital letters and was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use the...
15054.
Langeloth began as a coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
mining
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...
company town
Company town
A company town is a town or city in which much or all real estate, buildings , utilities, hospitals, small businesses such as grocery stores and gas stations, and other necessities or luxuries of life within its borders are owned by a single company...
. Langeloth has three businesses; Vallina's Market, Riddell/All American, and Langeloth Metallurgical Company. It is also the birthplace of noted former college football
College football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
coach Barry Alvarez
Barry Alvarez
Barry Alvarez is a former American football player and coach and currently the Director of Athletics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He served as the head football coach at Wisconsin for 16 seasons from 1990 to 2005, compiling a career college football record of 118–73–4...
. Langeloth is also home to the regionally renowned Langeloth Softball League, also known as LSB. Games are played at the Gus Barbush Memorial park where hundreds of locals gather to drink beer outside the outfield fence. The league slogan is, "We play fastpitch."