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BELLAIRE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 694 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELLAIRE  , a

city of Belmont county,
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Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ohio
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river, 5 M . S. of
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Wheeling, West Virginia . Pop . (1890) 9934; (19o0) 9912 (1159
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foreign-born); (1910) 12,946 . It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio, the Pennsylvania, and the Ohio River & Western
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railways . Bellaire is the
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shipping centre of the Belmont county coalfield which in 1907 produced 19'3 % of the
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total output of
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coal for the state . Iron,
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limestone and fire-clay are found in the vicinity; among the manufactures are iron and steel, glass, galvanized and enamelled
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ware, agricultural implements and stoves . The value of the city's factory products increased from $8,837,646 in 1900 to $10,712,438 in 1905, or 21.2 % . Bellaire was settled about 1795, was laid out in 1836, was incorporated as a
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village in 1858, and was chartered as a city in 1874 .

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