DUQUESNE

duquesne, a borough of allegheny county, pennsylvania, u.s.a., on the monongahela river, about 12 m. s.e. of pittsburg. pop. (1900) 9036, of whom 3451 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 15,727. it is served by the pennsylvania railway. its most prominent buildings are the carnegie free library and club (opened in 1904 and containing 17,500 volumes in 1908), and the city hall. a short distance n. of the borough limits kennywood park, with a large auditorium and pavilion, is an attractive resort. by far the most important industry of the borough is the manufacture of steel. the value of the borough's factory products increased from $20,333,476 in 1900 to $28,494,303 in 1905, or 40.1%. the municipality owns and operates its water-works. duquesne was settled in 1885 and was incorporated in 1891. duramen (a rare latin word, meaning hardness, from _durus_, hard), a botanical term for the inner, harder wood of a tree, the heart-wood.