The Isaac L. Ellwood mansion, De Kalb, Illinois.

Founded in 1892 by developer Henry Watters Hartman, the borough was named after Isaac L. Ellwood, one of the inventors of barbed wire.

The community grew rapidly with the development of a strong industrial base fostered in large part by the development of the seamless tube industry here. The first seamless steel tubes in America were pierced in Ellwood City in June of 1895 by inventor and engineer Ralph C. Stiefel.

Frank Patton seated in the wagon. A.M. Eshelman at B & O passenger station 1910.

4th Street before being paved in 1899.

The first seamless tube company was named the Ellwood Weldless Tube Company, which made seamless tubing for the bicycle industry. This firm was later acquired by the Shelby Tube Company that was the nucleus of the national tube division of the United States Steel.

The influx of "new Americans" from Italy, Germany, and other European regions added a diverse ethnicity to the Ellwood City population, which has given Lawrence County the largest Italian population of any county in the state of Pennsylvania.

First car on the Pittsburgh Division PHNC & Butler Railway Company.

The community of Ellwood City today is blessed with a fine public school system, a diversity of churches, safe neighborhoods, and the vast majority of the citizens owning their own homes.

Ellwood City is a good place to live, work, and play.