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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 550 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TYRONE  , a

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borough of
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Blair
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county,
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Pennsylvania, U.S.A., about 15 m . N.E. of
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Altoona, on the Little' Juniata
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river, a small tributary of the Juniata river . Pop . (1910) 7176 . Tyrone is served by the
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main
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line and three
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short branches of the Pennsylvania railway (which has repair shops here), and is connected with Altoona by an electric line . The borough is situated about 910 ft. above
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sea-level, in an agricultural and lumbering region, and there are deposits of
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limestone in the vicinity . It is a distributing point for the
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Clearfield
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coal region to the northward . At the
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village of
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Birmingham, 3 M.
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east, is a school for girls (founded 1853; incorporated 1907) . Tyrone was laid out as a village in 1851, and was incorporated as a borough in 1857 .

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