Smithfield, PA

Smithfield is a Fayette County borough on US 119 between Uniontown and Point Marion. The road runs through the center, northeast nine miles to the county seat and southwest eight miles to Point Marion, putting Smithfield between two clear destinations rather than off on a side road. Albert Gallatin Area School District serves it, and Nelson Steel’s wire-producing plant is the borough’s largest employer, giving the town an industrial detail to go with the highway map.

That location puts Smithfield in Fayette County’s old southwestern corner, where roads toward Uniontown and the river-side communities have always done much of the connecting. The county’s wider map includes Fort Necessity, Friendship Hill, and early roads through the Great Meadows, but Smithfield’s local scale is more practical: a borough centered on 119, a school district shared with neighboring communities, and a wire plant that keeps manufacturing in the story. The local scoop is simple: follow 119, and Smithfield is the small stop between the county seat and the river-side communities.