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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 897 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLEROI  , a

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borough of
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Washington
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county,
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Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the
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Monongahela
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river, near the S.W. corner of the
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state, about 20 M . S. of Pittsburgh . Pop . (1900) 5930, (1749
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foreign-
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born); (1910) 9615 It is served by the Pennsylvania railway . The surrounding
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country has
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good farming
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land and large
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coal mines . In 1905 the borough ranked fifth among the cities of the
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United States in the manufacture of
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glass (
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plate-glass,
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lamp chimneys and bottles), its product (valued at $1,841,308) being 2'3% of that of the whole country . Charleroi was settled in 1890 and was incorporated in 1891 .

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