Steubenville, capital of Jefferson county, Ohio, on the Ohio River, 68 miles below Pittsburgh (by railway 43), with blast-furnaces, rolling-mills, machine and railway shops, and manufactories of white-lead, paper, glass, woollens, flour, beer, &c. There are bituminous coal-mines near by, and natural gas is plentiful. Fort Steuben was built here in 1787. Pop. (1890) 13,394.
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