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TARENTUM

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 418 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
TARENTUM , a borough of Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., on the Allegheny river, about 20 M. N.E. of Pittsburg. Pop. (1890) 4627; (1900) 5472 (1173 being foreign-born); (1910) 7414. Tarentum is served by the
Pennsylvania
  railway and by an electric line connecting with Pittsburg. Among manufactures- are
plate
  glass and bottles, table
ware
 ,
paper
 , bricks, iron and steel articles, and steel sheets and billets. Coal mining is an important industry, and the borough is supplied with natural gas. Tarentum was first settled in 1796, was laid out in 1829 at the direction of
Henry
  Marie Brackenridge (1786-1871),2 who by
marriage
  had come into possession of the site, and it was incorporated as a borough in 1842. The first glass manufactory was established in 1872.


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