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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 683 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PITTSTON , a See also:

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

city of Luzerne 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., on the Susquehanna See also:

RIVER

river just below the mouth of the Lackawanna, about 11 m. S.W. of See also:

SCRANTON

Scranton and about 9 M. N.E. of Wilkes-See also:

Barre. Pop. (189o), 10,302; (1900), 12,556, of whom 3394 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

horn; (1910 See also:

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

census), 16,267. It is served by the See also:

ERIE

Erie, the Lehigh Valley, the See also:

DELAWARE

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the Central of New See also:

Jersey, the Delaware & See also:

Hudson, and the Lackawanna & See also:

WYOMING

Wyoming Valley See also:

RAILWAYS

railways; there is an electric railway from Pittston to Scranton, and a See also:

belt-See also:

LINE

line electric railway connects Pittston with See also:

AVOCA

Avoca, See also:

NANTICOKE

Nanticoke, See also:

Plymouth and Wilkes-Barre. Two See also:

bridges connect the city with the See also:

borough of See also:

West Pittston (pop., ,91o, 6848). Pittston is in the midst of the richest See also:

ANTHRACITE (Gr. avOpaE, coal)

anthracite See also:

COAL

coal region of the See also:

state, and 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 also abounds in the vicinity. In 1905 the value of the factory products was $1,474,928 (47.8% more than in 1900). Pittston, named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

William See also:

Pitt, See also:

EARL

earl of See also:

Chatham, was one of the five See also:

ORIGINAL

original towns founded in the Wyoming Valley by the Susquehanna See also:

COMPANY

Company of See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut; it was first settled about 1770 and was incorporated as a borough in 1803. It was chartered as a city in 1894.

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