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North Braddock

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North Braddock, borough (1990 pop. 7,036), Allegheny co., W Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, on the Monongahela River; inc. 1897. Andrew Carnegie Carnegie, Andrew , 1835–1919, American industrialist and philanthropist, b. Dunfermline, Scotland. His father, a weaver, found it increasingly difficult to get work in Scottish factories and in 1848 brought his family to Allegheny (now Pittsburgh), Pa.
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's first steel plant was built there in 1875. The borough was the site of Gen. Edward Braddock's defeat in the last conflict of the French and Indian Wars French and Indian Wars, 1689–1763, the name given by American historians to the North American colonial wars between Great Britain and France in the late 17th and the 18th cent.
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 and of a mass meeting of farmers instituting the Whiskey Rebellion Whiskey Rebellion, 1794, uprising in the Pennsylvania counties W of the Alleghenies, caused by Alexander Hamilton's excise tax of 1791. The settlers, mainly Scotch-Irish, for whom whiskey was an important economic commodity, resented the tax as discriminatory and
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3 receiver Steve Breaston, a relative unknown outside of North Braddock, Pa.
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The five finalists are: Cecelia Auerbeck of Altoona, Blair County; Raymond Petrosky of Munhall, Allegheny County; Tammy Blankenship of Robinson, Indiana County; Thomas Jackson of North Braddock, Allegheny County and Evelyn Marburger of New Castle, Lawrence County.
 
 
 
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