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CORRY, a city of Erie county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., in the north-west part of the State, 25m. from Lake Erie, at an elevation of 1,430 feet. It is on Federal highway 6, and is served by the Erie and the Pennsylvania railways. The population in 193o was 7,152. It is the shipping centre for a fine farming and oil-pro ducing district, and has railroad shops, steel works and various other manufacturing industries. Natural gas is used. One mile west is a State fish hatchery, and there are fine trout streams in the neighbourhood. Corry was settled in 1860, soon after oil was discovered in this region, and was named after Hiram Corry, through whose influence a railroad was built to the town. It was incorporated as a city in 1866.

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