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area of about 25 sq. m., contains five villages; Chicopee Center, Chicopee Falls, Willimansett, Fairview and Aldenville. Chicopee Falls lies on both sides of the Chicopee river, which falls some 70 ft. in less than 3 M. and furnishes valuable See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power for manufactories. The most important products are See also:

cotton goods (two large factories having, together, about 200,000 spindles), See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire-arms (especially the See also:

Stevens rifles), tools, See also:

RUBBER, INDIARUBBER

rubber and elastic goods, sporting goods, swords, automobiles and agricultural implements. Here, too, is a See also:

BRONZE

bronze statuary foundry, in which some of the finest monuments, bronze doors, &c., in the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country have been See also:

CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast, including the doors of the Capitol at See also:

Washington. The bronze casting See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry here was founded by Nathan See also:

Peabody See also:

Ames (1803-1847), who was first a See also:

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword-maker and in 1836 began the manufacture of See also:

CANNON (a word common to Romance languages, from the Lat. canna, a reed, tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)

cannon and See also:

church bells. The See also:

TOTAL

total value of the city's factory product in 1905 was '$7,715,653, an increase of 43.2 % in five years. There is a public library. The See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates the See also:

WATER

water-See also:

WORKS

works See also:

SYSTEM

system and the electric See also:

LIGHTING

lighting plant.

Chicopee was settled about 1638, was set off from Springfield as an See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent township in 1848, and was chartered as a city in 1890. Chicopee Falls was thehome of See also:

EDWARD

Edward See also:

Bellamy.

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