Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
1895 - Erie

Erie, a city and port of entry, the capital of Erie co, Pa., is on Lake Erie, 88 miles S.W. of Buffalo, 95 miles E.N.E. of Cleveland, 148 miles N. of Pittsburg, and 341 miles by railroad from Harrisburg. Lat. 42°8' N.; lon. 80° 8' W. It has a safe, landlocked harbor, which is 4 miles long by 1 mile wide, and is protected by the island of Presque Isle, on which 2 light-houses have been erected. Large sums are annually appropriated by Congress for the improvement of the harbor. Erie is the N. terminus of the Erie & Pittsburg Railroad, and is connected with Buffalo, Cleveland, and Chicago by rail; it is also a terminus of the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad. It is lighted by electricity, and natural gas is found in Erie and its suburbs. The water-works system cf Erie is valued at $1,500,000. It contains a court-house, an opera-house, a custom-house, a city hall, 30 churches, a # school, an academy, a con vent, a Catholic orphan-house and hospital, 4 national banks and 2 private banks, several oil-refineries, tanneries, £ planing-mills, steam flouring-mills, and breweries, and manufactures of numerous articles, including railroad-cars, engines and boilers, and all kinds of iron, steel, brass, and wood products. Four daily, 3 Sunday, and 8 weekly newspapers are published here. Large steam boats ply regularly between this place and other ports on the great lakes. The chief articles of export are coal, oil, iron, and manufactured products. The lake imports include flour, iron ore, lumber, &c. Erie is the see of a Catholic bishop. Pop. in 1860, 94.19; in 1870, 19,646; in 1880, 27,737; in 1890, 40,634.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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