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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 395 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MAHANOY See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

CITY , 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 Schuylkill 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, See also:

Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 56 m. N.E. of See also:

HARRISBURG

Harrisburg. Pop. (18go), 11,286; (1900), 13,504, of whom 3877 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born, mostly Slays; (Igto See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 15,936. It is served by branches of the Lehigh Valley and the See also:

PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia & See also:

READING

Reading See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. The borough is situated in the valley of Mahanoy See also:

Creek, and has an See also:

ELEVATION

elevation of 1240 ft. above the See also:

sea; Broad See also:

Mountain (1795 ft.), a See also:

ridge extending through Schuylkill county, overlooks it on the S.E. The valley is a See also:

PART

part of the See also:

ANTHRACITE (Gr. avOpaE, coal)

anthracite See also:

COAL

coal region of Pennsylvania, See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire See also:

clay abounds in the vicinity, and the borough's See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries are the See also:

MINING

mining and See also:

SHIPPING

shipping of coal, and the manufacture of shirts and foundry products. Mahanoy City, originally a part of Mahanoy township (pop. in 1910, 6256), was incorporated as a borough in 1863.

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