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ETNA

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 853 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EMS-EUD
ETNA , a
borough
  of Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., in the western
part
  of the state, on the W. bank of the Allegheny river (about 5 m. from its junction with the Monongahela), and about 2 M. N. of the city of Pittsburg, of which it is a suburb. Pop. (188o) 2334; (1890) 3767; (1900) 5384 (1702 foreign-born); (1910) 5830. It is served by the
Pennsylvania
  railway and by electric lines. Among its industrial establishments are .
rolling
  mills, tube and pipe works, furnaces, steel mills, a
brass
  foundry, and manufactories of
electrical
  railway supplies, boxes, asbestos coverings, enamel
work
  and ice. The city's industrial history
dates
  from 1820, when a small factory for the manufacture of scythes and sickles was set up. Natural gas, piped from Butler county, was early used here as a
fuel
  in the
iron
  mills. Etna, formerly called Steuart's Town, was incorporated as a
borough
  in 1869.


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