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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 309 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARBONDALE , a See also:

city of Lackawanna See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Lackawanna See also:river, 16 m. N.E. of See also:Scranton. Pop. (1890) 10,833; (1900) 13,536, of whom 2553 were See also:foreign- See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 17,040. Carbondale is served by the See also:Erie, the See also:Delaware & See also:Hudson (which has See also:machine shops here), and the New See also:York, See also:Ontario & Western See also:railways. The city lies near the upper end of the Lackawanna valley, and the scenery of the surrounding mountains makes it a summer resort of some importance. It has a public library, a small See also:park, an emergency See also:hospital and the Carbondale city private hospital. Carbondale is situated in one of the richest See also:anthracite See also:coal regions of the See also:state, and its See also:principal See also:interest is in coal. Among its manufactures are foundry and machine See also:shop products, See also:sheet-See also:iron, See also:silk, See also:glass, thermometers and hydrometers, bobbins and See also:refrigerating See also:machines. The value of the city's factory products increased from $1,146,181 in 1900 to $2,315,695 in 1905, or 102%. The See also:settlement of the See also:place began in 1824 with the opening of the coal mines, and Carbondale was chartered as a city in 1851.

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