CARNEGIE
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CARNEGIE , a borough See Also: - BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the
place -names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place , the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg) - BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania , U.S.A., 6 m. S.W. of Pittsburg. Pop. (1900) 7330 (1816 being foreign-born); (1910) 10,009. It is served by the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the Pittsburg, Chartiers & Youghiogheny, and the Wabash Pittsburg Terminal railways, and the Pittsburg street railway. Carnegie is situated in the beautiful valley of Chartiers Creek, and is in one of the coal and natural gas districts of the state. In the borough See Also: - BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the
camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg) - BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
are a Carnegie library and St Paul 's orphan asylum. Among the borough's manufactures are steel, lead, glass, ploughs and enamel- and tin-ware . There are alkaline and lithia mineral springs here. In 1894 Carnegie, named in honour of Andrew Carnegie, was formed by the union of the boroughs Chartiers and Mansfield.
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