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Encyclopedia Britannica



STEELTON

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 867 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
STEELTON , a
borough
  of Dauphin county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., on the Susquehanna river, 3 M. S.E. of Harrisburg. Pop. (1890), 9250; (1900), 12,086, of whom 2300 were foreign born and 1508 were negroes; (1910
census
 ), 14,246. Steelton is served by the
Pennsylvania
  and the Philadelphia &
Reading
  railways, and is connected with Hartisburg by electric line. The city has a public library. Steelton is in an agricultural.
district
 , but its industrial importance is due primarily to the vast steel works of the Pennsylvania Steel
Company
 . Other manufactures are
flour
  and grist mill products, bricks, planing-mill products, &c. In 1905 the
total
  value of the
borough
 's factory products was $15,745,628; the
capital
  invested in manufacturing increased from $6,266,068 in 290o to $18,642',853. in 1905, or 197.5%. There is a large
limestone
  quarry within the borough limits. The municipality owns its waterworks and filtration plant. The place was laid out in 1866 under the name of Baldwin, but when it was incorporated as a borough, in 188o, the present name was adopted.


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