Farmington, PA

Farmington is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Wharton Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The 2010 census counted 767 residents. Farmington is located along U.S. Route 40, the National Road, approximately 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and is the closest settlement to Fort Necessity National Battlefield. Farmington is also home to Historic Summit Inn Resort, the four-star Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and the New Meadow Run and Spring Valley Bruderhofs, two of a group of international Christian communities with about 200 members in each.

The short version is that Farmington carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Farmington: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Via U.S. Route 40, Uniontown, the Fayette County seat, is 12 miles to the northwest, and Cumberland, Maryland, is 50 miles to the southeast. Pittsburgh is 60 miles to the northwest via US 40 and Pennsylvania Route 51. Farmington is home to Historic Summit Inn Resort.