Meadville, Pennsylvania

Meadville is small city and is the county seat of the rural Crawford County. It was the first settlement in northwest Pennsylvania and played an important role in the 18th century for the French and English in regard to the trapping trade route that existed between Pittsburgh and Erie.

Today Meadville is a town the embodies the spirit of small-town America and is home to Allegheny College. It was once rated in the 1990's as one of the most honest towns in America by Reader's Digest Magazine. Although not as bustling as it once was in the early 1900's, Meadville offers a variety of amenities and opportunities including high quality education from elementary school through college, low cost of living, low crime, and a pleasant community spirit. There has been a recent wave of small businesses opening in Meadville that have fostered this community commitment to not being a "cookie-cutter" town of the same strip malls and chain stores found around the country.

www.cityofmeadville.org/