Connellsville
[key], city (2020 pop. 7,031), Fayette co., SW Pa., on the Youghiogheny
River in the Allegheny Mts.; settled c.1770, inc. as a borough 1806, as a
city 1911. A significant producer of coal and coke, the city also has
railroad shops. Its manufactures include machinery, chemicals, and paper
products. The attack upon Henry C. Frick by the anarchist Alexander
Berkman occurred
(1892) in Connellsville during the Homestead strike. A branch of
Pennsylvania State Univ. is south of the city.
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