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Encyclopedia Britannica



MAHANOY CITY

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 395 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MAHANOY CITY , a borough of Schuylkill county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., 56 m. N.E. of Harrisburg. Pop. (18go), 11,286; (1900), 13,504, of whom 3877 were foreign-born, mostly Slays; (Igto
census
 ) 15,936. It is served by branches of the Lehigh Valley and the Philadelphia &
Reading
  railways. The borough is situated in the valley of Mahanoy Creek, and has an
elevation
  of 1240 ft. above the sea; Broad
Mountain
  (1795 ft.), a
ridge
  extending through Schuylkill county, overlooks it on the S.E. The valley is a
part
  of the anthracite coal region of
Pennsylvania
 , fire clay abounds in the vicinity, and the borough's
principal
 
industries
  are the mining and shipping of coal, and the manufacture of shirts and foundry products. Mahanoy City, originally a
part
  of Mahanoy township (pop. in 1910, 6256), was incorporated as a borough in 1863.


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