Claysville, PA

Claysville is a Washington County borough in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, with 728 residents in the 2020 census. Its history reaches into the early National Road era: the borough grew along the route that carried traffic west through Washington County, and the road still shapes the area's orientation. Benjamin Franklin Jones was born in Claysville before co-founding Jones and Laughlin Steel, tying this small place to Pittsburgh's iron and steel story.

Claysville Elementary sits on Main Street as part of the McGuffey School District, giving the borough a school presence in its center and connecting it to a wider rural district. At the western edge, the Montgomery House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Those pieces give the town a clear local map: a compact borough along an old transportation corridor, with a school in the middle and a preserved house at the edge, still linked by region and history to Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania.