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DUQUESNE

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 692 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DRO-ECG
DUQUESNE , a borough of Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., on the Monongahela river, about 12 M. S.E. of Pittsburg. Pop. (1900) 9036, of whom 3451 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 15,727. It is served by the
Pennsylvania
  railway. Its most prominent buildings are the
Carnegie
  free library and club (opened in 1904 and containing 17,500 volumes in 1908), and the city
hall
 . A short distance N. of the borough limits Kenny-
wood
  Park, with a large auditorium and pavilion, is an attractive resort. By far the most important industry of the borough is the manufacture of steel. The value of the borough's factory products increased from $20,333,476 in 1900 to $28,494,303 in 1905, or 40.1%. The municipality owns and operates its water-works. Duquesne was settled in 1885 and was incorporated in 1891.


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