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Encyclopedia Britannica



HAZLETON

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 119 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG
HAZLETON , a city of Luzerne county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., about 25 M. S. of Wilkes-
Barre
 . Pop. (189o) 11,872; (1900)
14,230, of whom 2732 were foreign-born; (1910
census
 ) 25,452. It is served by the Lehigh Valley, the
Pennsylvania
  (for freight), and the Wilkes-
Barre
  & Hazleton (electric) railways. The city is built on a broad tableland on Nescopeck or Bak
Mountain
 , a spur of the Blue Mountains, about 162o ft. above sea-level. It has a park and a number of handsome residences; and its agreeable climate and picturesque situation make it attractive as a summer resort. The city has a public library. Hazleton is near the centre of one of the richest coal regions (the Lehigh or " Eastern Middle Coal Field ") of the state, and its
principal
  industry is the mining and shipping of anthracite coal. It has
silk
  mills, knitting mills, shirt factories, breweries,
macaroni
  factories, lumber and planing mills, important iron works, a casket factory and a large electric power plant. The value of
' On the expression " hazel eyes," see Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. 337, and 3rd ser. iii. 18, 39.
2 For derivations of the word see Latham's Johnson's Dictionary.
the city's factory products increased from $998,823 in 1900 to $2,185,876 in 1905, or 118.8%, only three other cities in the state having a population of 8000 or more in 1900 showing a greater rate of increase. There is a state
hospital
 
    See Also:
here for the treatment of persons injured in mines. Hazleton was settled in 182o, was laid out in 1836, was incorporated as a borough in 1856 and received a city charter in 1891. The local coal industry
dates
  from 1837.


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