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CARNEGIE , a See also: borough of See also: Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 6 m
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S.W. of See also: Pittsburg
.
Pop
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(1900) 7330 (1816 being See also: foreign-See also: born); (1910) 10,009
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It is served by the Pittsburg, See also: Cincinnati, See also: Chicago & St See also: Louis, the Pittsburg, Chartiers & Youghiogheny, and the
See also: Wabash Pittsburg Terminal See also: railways, and the Pittsburg street railway
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Carnegie is situated in the beautiful valley of Chartiers Creek, and is in one of the See also: coal and natural See also: gas districts of the See also: state
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In the borough are a Carnegie library and St See also: Paul's See also: orphan See also: asylum
.
Among the borough's manufactures are See also: steel, See also: lead, See also: glass, ploughs and enamel- and tin-See also: ware
.
There are alkaline and lithia See also: mineral springs here
.
In 1894 Carnegie, named in honour of Andrew Carnegie, was formed by the union of the boroughs Chartiers and Mansfield
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