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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
Pennsylvania, Cambria and Somerset counties. Impressive, right? And pay attention on Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Wheeling-Steubenville. If they kept growing at national average, they would be massive metropolises today.
Scranton-Wilkes, for example, relatively peaked in 1920 or so. They would be over 2 million people today.
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These are collections of coal and steel towns in river valleys. Pittsburgh is the ultimate example of this typology.
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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
Yes. By the 1950 definition, it was a two-county metro area. As we're talking of 1900, I would guess Cambria county only would be more appropriate, but still, Johnstown would be at 104k. Quite impressive.
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A two-county metro area here is REALLY stretching it. Most of Somerset County was, and still is, nothing. Somerset is really the only place of any significance there, and it's never been very much... I doubt it ever even had 10k people. Somerset County is mountains and farms.