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MONONGAHELA

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 732 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MONONGAHELA , a city of Washington county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., on the Monongahela river, 31 M. by
rail
  S. of
Pittsburg. Pop. (1890), 4096; (1900), 5173 (7ir foreign-born, and 345 negroes); (1910) 7598. It is served by the
Pennsylvania
  and the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie
  railways, and by electric railways to Pittsburg and Washington, Pa: Monongahela is in a coal region, and the
mining
  of coal is its
principal
  industry. It was laid out as a town in 1792 by Joseph Parkinson, and named by him
Williamsport
 ; but it was commonly known as Parkinson's Ferry until 1833, when it was incorporated as a
borough
 . Four years later the present name was adopted, and in 1873 Monongahela was chartered as a city. It was here that the
Whisky
  Insurrection convention met on the 14th of August 1794.


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