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CARNEGIE

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 365 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARNEGIE  , a

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