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MOUNT CARMEL

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 939 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOUNT See also:CARMEL , a See also:borough of See also:Northumberland See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., at the See also:head of See also:Shamokin See also:Creek, about 50 M. N.N.E. of See also:Harrisburg. Pop. (1890), 8254; (1900), 13,179, of whom 3772 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1gzo See also:census) 17,532. It is served by the Lehigh Valley, the See also:Philadelphia & See also:Reading, and the Shamokin See also:Division of the See also:Northern Central (Pennsylvania See also:system) See also:railways. See also:Anthracite See also:coal abounds here, and the See also:mining and See also:shipping of it, together with the manufacture of mining machinery and miners' supplies are the borough's See also:principal See also:industries. This locality was settled See also:late in the 18th See also:century. About 1848 Mount Carmel was laid out as a See also:town, and in 1862 was chartered as a borough.

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