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Paperback Mount Washington and Duquesne Heights Book

ISBN: 0738549584

ISBN13: 9780738549583

Mount Washington and Duquesne Heights

(Part of the Images of America: Pennsylvania Series)

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For 100 years, a crescent of agricultural land about 25 miles long was isolated from the city of Pittsburgh by two rivers and a hill over 400 feet high. This hill, originally called Coal Hill, hid a resource that contributed greatly to the area's industries. Coal was needed to make whiskey, melt copper and iron, and heat homes and factories. Coal Hill, renamed Mount Washington, drew early settlers who came to work in Pittsburgh's many factories and...

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