Crabtree, PA

Crabtree is a census-designated place and former coal town in Salem Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The 2010 census counted 277 residents. Crabtree has its own post office, with postal code 15624, and a Catholic church established in 1903 on land donated by the Jamison Coal & Coke Company. The town was originally named Goff. Crabtree's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Pennsylvania setting. The local scoop is how Crabtree's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. In the 1880s, Thomas Donohoe's Alexandria Coal Company began mining and coking operations nearby and built company houses in the town.