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CRAFTON - Founded 1890.  Created out of Chartiers Township and incorporated as a borough in 1892.  Suburban community west of Downtown Pittsburgh.  Named after Charles C. Craft, a frontier attorney.  Crafton is currently home to about 6,000 residents.

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