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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 853 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ETNA  , a

borough of
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Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., in the western
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part of the state, on the W.
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bank of the Allegheny
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river (about 5 m. from its junction with the
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Monongahela), and about 2 M . N. of the city of Pittsburg, of which it is a suburb . Pop . (188o) 2334; (1890) 3767; (1900) 5384 (1702
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foreign-born); (1910) 5830 . It is served by the Pennsylvania railway and by electric lines . Among its
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industrial establishments are .
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rolling mills, tube and
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pipe
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works, furnaces, steel mills, a brass foundry, and manufactories of electrical railway supplies, boxes,
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asbestos coverings, enamel
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work and ice . The city's industrial
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history
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dates from 1820, when a small factory for the manufacture of scythes and sickles was set up . Natural
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gas, piped from Butler county, was early used here as a fuel in the iron mills . Etna, formerly called Steuart's
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Town, was incorporated as a borough in 1869 .

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