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MAHANOY CITY

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 395 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAHANOY

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CITY  , a
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borough of Schuylkill
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county,
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Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 56 m . N.E. of
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Harrisburg . Pop . (18go), 11,286; (1900), 13,504, of whom 3877 were
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foreign-
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born, mostly Slays; (Igto
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census) 15,936 . It is served by branches of the Lehigh Valley and the
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Philadelphia &
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Reading
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railways . The borough is situated in the valley of Mahanoy
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Creek, and has an
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elevation of 1240 ft. above the
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sea; Broad
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Mountain (1795 ft.), a
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ridge extending through Schuylkill county, overlooks it on the S.E . The valley is a
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part of the
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anthracite
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coal region of Pennsylvania,
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fire
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clay abounds in the vicinity, and the borough's
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principal
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industries are the
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mining and
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shipping of coal, and the manufacture of shirts and foundry products . Mahanoy
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City, originally a part of Mahanoy township (pop. in 1910, 6256), was incorporated as a borough in 1863 .

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