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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 84 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANSONIA , a See also:

city of New Haven See also:county, See also:Connecticut, U.S.A., coextensive with the township of the same name, on the See also:Naugatuck See also:river, immediately N. of See also:Derby and about 12 M. N.W. of New Haven. It is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway, and by interurban electric lines See also:running N., S. and E. Pop. (190o) 12,681, of whom 4296 were See also:foreign See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 15,152. See also:Land See also:area about 5.4 sq. m. The city has extensive manufactures of heavy machinery, electric supplies, See also:brass and See also:copper products and See also:silk goods. In 1905 the See also:capital invested in manufacturing was $7,625,864, and the value of the products was $19,132,455. Ansonia, Derby and See also:Shelton See also:form one of the most important See also:industrial communities in the See also:state. The city, settled in 184o and named in See also:honour of the See also:merchant and philanthropist, See also:Arson See also:Green See also:Phelps (1781—1853), was originally a See also:part of the township of Derby; it was chartered as a See also:borough in 1864 and as a city in 1893, when the township of Ansonia, which had been incorporated in 1889, and the city were consolidated.

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