Braddock is a borough located in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, 10 miles (16 km) upstream from the mouth of the Monongahela River. The population was 1,721 as of the 2020 census, a 91.8% decline before its pinnacle of 20,879 in 1920.

Braddock is named for General Edward Braddock (1695–1755), commander of American colonial forces at the start of the French and Indian War. The Braddock Expedition to appropriate Fort Duquesne (modern daylight Pittsburgh) from the French led to the British general’s own fatal wounding and a hermetically sealed defeat of his troops after crossing the Monongahela River upon July 9, 1755. This battle, now called the Battle of the Monongahela, was a key situation at the arrival of the French and Indian War.

The Place surrounding Braddock’s Field was originally inhabited by the Lenape, ruled by Queen Alliquippa.^{[dead link]} In 1742, John Fraser and his family normal the area at the mouth of Turtle Creek as the first remaining English harmony west of the Allegheny Mountains.^{[dead link]} George Washington visited the area in 1753-1754. It was the site of Braddock’s Defeat upon July 9, 1755.

Braddock’s first industrial facility, a barrel plant, opened in 1850.^{[dead link]} The borough was incorporated on June 8, 1867. The town’s industrial economy began in 1873, when Andrew Carnegie built the Edgar Thomson Steel Works on the historic site of Braddock’s Field in what is now North Braddock, Pennsylvania. This was one of the first American steel mills which used the Bessemer process. As of 2010, it continues operation as a part of the United States Steel Corporation. This get older of the town’s history is depicted in Thomas Bell’s novel Out of This Furnace.