HAZLETON  , a

city of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., about 25 M . S. of Wilkes-Barre . Pop . (189o) 11,872; (1900) 14,230, of whom 2732 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 25,452 . It is served by the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania (for freight), and the Wilkes-Barre & Hazleton (electric) railways . The city is built on a broad tableland on Nescopeck or Bak Mountain, a spur of the Blue Mountains, about 162o ft. above sea-level . It has a park and a number of handsome residences; and its agreeable climate and picturesque situation make it attractive as a summer resort . The city has a public library . Hazleton is near the centre of one of the richest coal regions (the Lehigh or " Eastern Middle Coal Field ") of the state, and its principal industry is the mining and shipping of anthracite coal . It has silk mills, knitting mills, shirt factories, breweries, macaroni factories, lumber and planing mills, important iron works, a casket factory and a large electric power plant . The value of ' On the expression " hazel eyes," see Notes and Queries, 2nd ser . 337, and 3rd ser. iii .

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Johnson's Dictionary . the city's factory products increased from $998,823 in 1900 to $2,185,876 in 1905, or 118.8%, only three other cities in the state having a population of 8000 or more in 1900 showing a greater rate of increase . There is a state hospital here for the treatment of persons injured in mines . Hazleton was settled in 182o, was laid out in 1836, was incorporated as a borough in 1856 and received a city charter in 1891 . The local coal industry dates from 1837 .