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Ridgway (Borough of Pennsylvania)

a borough of Pennsylvania, the county-seat of Elk co. It is on the Clarion river and on the Pennsylvania and the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh railroads. Its notable buildings include a courthouse, a high school, a hospital and a Y. M. C. A. building.

It is the center of an important lumbering region and has manufactures of leather, iron, clay, lumber products, silk goods, dynamos, machine tools, etc. In the neighborhood are valuable deposits of coal and natural gas. Pop. (1910) 5,408; (1920) 6,037.