CHARLEROI
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CHARLEROI , 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 Washington county, Pennsylvania , U.S.A., on the Monongahela river, near the S.W. corner of the state, about 20 M. S. of Pittsburgh. Pop. (1900) 5930, (1749 foreign -born ); (1910) 9615 It is served by the Pennsylvania railway. The surrounding country has good farming land and large coal mines. In 1905 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)
ranked fifth among the cities of the United States in the manufacture of glass (plate -glass, lamp chimneys and bottles), its product (valued at $1,841,308) being 2'3% of that of the whole country. Charleroi was settled in 1890 and was incorporated in 1891.
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