Golf in Eighty Four

Eighty Four is a Washington County community whose name comes from the year a local post office was established — 1884, reduced to its number and applied to a crossroads that has since grown into a modest rural-suburban community along PA-136. Washington County's southwestern Pennsylvania character is defined by its position between Pittsburgh's South Hills suburbs and the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border country, a landscape of agricultural uplands between the Mon, Chartiers Creek, and Wheeling Creek watersheds. The 84 Lumber Company, one of the largest privately held companies in the United States, takes its name and was founded here — giving the community an unlikely connection to national commerce. Golf in the Eighty Four area draws from Washington County's mix of commuter residents and the older agricultural communities that preceded suburban development.