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The Roeblings

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John A. Roebling, inventor of steel wire rope and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge, began business at Saxonburg, which he founded in 1832. His son, Washington A. Roebling, who built the Brooklyn Bridge, was born there in 1837.
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