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Carbondale

[ kahr-buhn-deyl ]

noun

  1. a city in SW Illinois.
  2. a city in NE Pennsylvania, near Scranton: coal-mining center.


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Walston’s daughter, Vicki Short, drove up as soon as she could from her home near Carbondale.

After the Carbondale hospital was out of space, as it would be in November, the best options were in Missouri, Indiana or Kentucky.

Molly Parker is a reporter for The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale, Illinois.

The county in southern Illinois is home to the city of Carbondale and Southern Illinois University, and it also includes rural areas.

At a meeting, in Carbondale, of certain members of the order of Molly Maguires.

It has a public library, a small park, an emergency hospital and the Carbondale city private hospital.

The settlement of the place began in 1824 with the opening of the coal mines, and Carbondale was chartered as a city in 1851.

Carbondale is situated in one of the richest anthracite coal regions of the state, and its principal interest is in coal.

But twenty years ago there was no busier mine than the Dryden from Carbondale to Nanticoke.

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