Rowes Run, PA

Rowes Run is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Redstone Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The 2020 census counted 517 residents. The community was part of the Grindstone-Rowes Run CDP before it was split into two separate CDPs for the 2010 census. Rowes Run was founded in 1907 by the Pittsburgh Coal Company. The short version is that Rowes Run carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Rowes Run: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Also known as "New Hill", it was named for a stream that ran through property owned by James Rowe, a prominent figure in the area. Rowes Run is located in northwestern Fayette County, at the northern end of Redstone Township. Rowes Run is bordered to the north, across Grindstone Road, by the community of Grindstone.