New Castle, capital of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, on the Shenango River, 50 miles by rail NNW. of Pittsburg, contains a college, large rolling-mills, foundries, and manufactories of nails, furnaces, and flour. Pop. (1890) 11,581.
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