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EAST STROUDSBURG, a borough of Monroe county, Pa., U.S.A., adjoining Stroudsburg (q.v.) and tom. N. of Easton, surrounded by the beautiful scenery of the Kittatinny and the Pocono mountains. It is served by the Delaware Valley, the Erie, the Lackawanna, the New York, Susquehanna and Western, and the Pennsylvania railways. The population was 4,855 in 192o (93% native white), and was 6,099 in 193o by the Federal census. The borough has sundry manufacturing industries, and is the seat of a State teachers' college (opened 1893). The principal manu factures are structural steel, water-heating boilers, boiler tubes and silk.

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