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GREENSBURG , a See also: borough and the county-seat of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 31 M
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E.S.E. of See also: Pittsburg
.
Pop
.
(1890) 4202; (1900) 6508 (484 See also: foreign-See also: born); (1910) 5420
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It is served by two lines of the Pennsylvania railway
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It is an important See also: coal centre, and manufactures engines, iron and See also: brass goods, See also: flour, See also: lumber and bricks
.
In addition to its public school See also: system, it has several private See also: schools, including St Mary's See also: Academy and St See also: Joseph's Academy, both See also: Roman Catholic
.
About 3 M
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N.E. of what is now Greensburg stood the See also: village of See also: Hanna's See also: Town, settled about 1770 and almost completely destroyed by the See also: Indians on the 13th of See also: July 1782; here what is said to have been the first See also: court held west of the Alleghanies opened on the 6th of See also: April 1773, and the county courts continued to be held here until 1787
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Greensburg was settled in 1784-1785, immediately after the opening of the See also: state road, not far from the trail followed by General See also: John
See also: Forbes on his See also: march to Fort Duquesne in 1758; it was made the county-seat in 1787, and was incorporated in 1799
.
In 1905 the boroughs of Ludwick (pop. in 1900, gor),
See also: East Greensburg (1050), and See also: South-east Greensburg (62o) were merged with Greensburg
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See John N
.
Boucher's See also: History of Westmoreland County, Pa
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(3 vols., New See also: York, 1906)
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