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Newcastle (City and county-seat)

a city and county-seat of Lawrence co., Pa.; at the confluence of the Neshannock and the Shenango rivers, and on the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, the Pennsylvania, the Erie, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh railroads; 50 miles N. E. of Pittsburgh. It contains the Shenango Valley Hospital, waterworks, electric street railroads, gas and electric lights, daily and weekly newspapers, and several National banks. It is in a section rich in sandstone and limestone, iron ore, fire clay, and bituminous coal. It has manufactories of sewer pipe, glass, fire brick, iron, steel, boilers, etc. Pop. (1910) 36,280; (1920) 44,938.