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CONNELLSVILLE , a See also: - BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Fayette See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Youghiogheny See also:river, about 6o m. S.S.E. of Pitts-See also:burg. Pop. (189o) 5629; (1900) 716o, including Boo See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910) 12,845. It is served by the Pennsylvania, the Pittsbur g and See also:Lake See also:Erie, and the See also:Baltimore & See also:Ohio See also:railways, and by the interurban electric See also:system of the See also:West See also:Penn Railway Co., which has a large See also:power plant near Connellsville. Connellsville is the centre of the Connellsville See also:coke See also:district (in Fayette and Westmoreland counties), which has the largest See also:production in the See also:United States, the output in 1907 (13,089,427 tons) being 32.1% of that of the whole See also:country. Connellsville coke is the See also:standard grade. What is called the See also:Lower Connellsville coke region lies in Fayette county S.W. of the Connellsville district. It is richest near See also:Uniontown, and in 1907 produced 6,310,900 tons of coke, making it second only to Connellsville. The so-called Upper Connellsville (or See also:Latrobe) district, near Latrobe, produced in 1907,.1,030,260 tons of coke. The combined output of these three districts in 1907 was 50.1% of the See also:total of the entire country. The borough of Connellsville has various manufactures including See also:iron, See also:tin See also:plate, automobiles and various kinds of machinery; and a See also:state See also:hospital for the treatment of persons injured in mines is located here. Connellsville was first settled in 1770, was laid out as a See also: town by Zachariah Connell, in whose See also:honour it was named, in 1793, and was incorporated in 18o6. The borough of New Haven (pop. in 'goo, 1532) was annexed to Connellsville after the See also:census enumeration of 1900.
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