DUQUESNE
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V08,
Page 692
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
DUQUESNE
, a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Allegheny See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the See also:Monongahela See also:river, about 12 M
.
S.E. of See also:Pittsburg
.
Pop
.
(1900) 9036, of whom 3451 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 15,727
.
It is served by the Pennsylvania railway
.
Its most prominent buildings are the See also:Carnegie See also:free library and See also:club (opened in 1904 and containing 17,500 volumes in 1908), and the See also:city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall
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A See also:short distance N. of the borough limits Kenny-See also:wood See also:Park, with a large auditorium and See also:pavilion, is an attractive resort
.
By far the most important See also:industry of the borough is the manufacture of See also:steel
.
The value of the borough's factory products increased from $20,333,476 in 1900 to $28,494,303 in 1905, or 40.1%
.
The See also:municipality owns and operates its See also:water-See also:works
.
Duquesne was settled in 1885 and was incorporated in 1891
.
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