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Braddock (Borough of Pennsylvania)

a borough of Pennsylvania, in Allegheny co. It is on the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie rail- BRADDOCK roads, and on the Monongahela river.

The city is an important industrial community. It has manufactures of steel, pig iron, steel rails, etc. It has a Carnegie library which is the first established in America, a hospital, Federal building, a park. town is the site of Braddock's defeat in 1755. Pop. (1910) 19,257; (1920) 20,879.