Latrobe, Pennsylvania

Latrobe is a borough with home-rule status in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States, near Chestnut Ridge within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. It had 8,060 residents at the 2020 census. The town was home to the Latrobe Brewing Company, the original brewer of Rolling Rock beer, and the metals manufacturer Kennametal was founded there in 1938. It was the birthplace and childhood home of children's television personality Fred Rogers and of the golfer Arnold Palmer, and the banana split was invented there by David Strickler in 1904. Latrobe is also home to the training camp of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and it was long believed to be the site of the first professional American football game in 1895 until research found an 1892 game with paid players.