George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities.
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Pittsburgh, Alleghany County, Pennsylvania

a city of 185,000 pop., at the junction of Alleghany and Monongahela Rivers, which here form the Ohio. It is surrounded by immense mines of coal and iron. The manufactures are very extensive, employing millions of capital and thousands of operatives. The iron foundries are more numerous and extensive than in any other city in the United States. The commerce is also extensive, the Ohio River being navigable to this point for light draft steamboats, which run to all points on the Ohio & Mississippi River. It is connected by railroads to all the principal cities.