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GREENSBURG , 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 and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Westmoreland county, See also:

Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 31 M. E.S.E. of See also:

Pittsburg. Pop. (1890) 4202; (1900) 6508 (484 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1910) 5420. It is served by two lines of the Pennsylvania railway. It is an important See also:

COAL

coal centre, and manufactures engines, See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron and See also:

brass goods, See also:

FLOUR

flour, See also:

LUMBER

lumber and bricks. In addition to its public school See also:

SYSTEM

system, it has several private See also:

SCHOOLS

schools, including St See also:

Mary's See also:

Academy and St See also:

Joseph's Academy, both See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic. About 3 M. N.E. of what is now Greensburg stood the See also:

VILLAGE

village of See also:

HANNA, MARCUS ALONZO (1837-1904)

Hanna's See also:

TOWN

Town, settled about 1770 and almost completely destroyed by the See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians on the 13th of See also:

JULY

July 1782; here what is said to have been the first See also:

court held See also:

west of the Alleghanies opened on the 6th of See also:

APRIL

April 1773, and the county courts continued to be held here until 1787. Greensburg was settled in 1784-1785, immediately after the opening of the See also:

state road, not far from the trail followed by See also:

General See also:

John See also:

Forbes on his See also:

march to Fort See also:

Duquesne in 1758; it was made the county-seat in 1787, and was incorporated in 1799. In 1905 the boroughs of Ludwick (pop. in 1900, gor), See also:

East Greensburg (1050), and See also:

South-east Greensburg (62o) were merged with Greensburg. See John N.

See also:

Boucher's See also:

HISTORY

History of Westmoreland County, Pa. (3 vols., New See also:

York, 1906).

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