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MOUNT CARMEL

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 939 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOUNT
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CARMEL  , a
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borough of
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Northumberland
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county,
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Pennsylvania, U.S.A., at the
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head of
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Shamokin
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Creek, about 50 M . N.N.E. of
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Harrisburg . Pop . (1890), 8254; (1900), 13,179, of whom 3772 were
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foreign-
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born; (1gzo
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census) 17,532 . It is served by the Lehigh Valley, the
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Philadelphia &
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Reading, and the Shamokin
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Division of the
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Northern Central (Pennsylvania
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system)
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railways .
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Anthracite
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coal abounds here, and the
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mining and
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shipping of it, together with the manufacture of mining machinery and miners' supplies are the borough's
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principal
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industries . This locality was settled
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late in the 18th
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century . About 1848
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Mount
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Carmel was laid out as a
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town, and in 1862 was chartered as a borough .

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