If you’ve scoured all of Allegheny County real estate and still haven’t found your perfect home, check out adjacent Butler County to the north. In fact, Cranberry, PA real estate may be to your liking as it’s only about 30 miles north of downtown Pittsburgh. This community of about 28,000 is located in the southwestern corner of Butler County and gets its name from the wild cranberries that once grew in the area. Cranberry Township was incorporated in 1804.
Your Pittsburgh Realtor will tell you that Cranberry is a fast-growing Pittsburgh suburb (the population was just a little under 15,000 in 1990), one that is popular for some very good reasons: the town is near-yet-far from the stress, crowds and craziness that too often is Pittsburgh, yet close enough that a commuter can get to a job in the Golden Triangle in around 30 minutes.
Cranberry and the surrounding area once was inhabited by Native Americans who hunted plentiful beaver, raccoon, wild ducks, muskrat, deer, bear, and wild turkey. The first white settlers arrive in the later part of the 1790s and early 1800s. Most of them were farmers, there to take advantage of nearby Depreciation Land, set aside explicitly for Revolutionary War veterans and their families. Most of these early settlers hailed from Pittsburgh and Allegheny County; real estate was plentiful here, especially for veterans wishing to lay claim to acreage in the Depreciation Lands.
If you’re looking to follow in the footsteps of this country’s Revolutionary War heroes and purchase Cranberry, PA real estate, contact Pittsburgh Realtor Liz Caplan. You may contact Liz and her team at The Caplan Group at 412-302-2645. Liz would be happy to discuss the many attributes that Cranberry PA Real Estate, and a Cranberry PA homes have to offer.
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