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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 951 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CONNEAUT , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

ASHTABULA

Ashtabula See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

OHIO

Ohio, U.S.A., on See also:

Lake See also:

ERIE

Erie at the mouth of Conneaut See also:

Creek, and about 68 m. N.E. of See also:

Cleveland. Pop. (1890) 3241; (1900) 7133 (1227 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (191o) 8319. It is served by the New See also:

York, See also:

Chicago & St See also:

Louis (which has railway repair shops here), the Lake See also:

SHORE

Shore & See also:

Michigan See also:

SOUTHERN

Southern, and the See also:

Bessemer & Lake Erie See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by See also:

CAR (Late Lat. carra)

car ferries which ply between Conneaut and See also:

RONDEAU (Ital. Rondo)

Rondeau and See also:

PORT

Port See also:

Stanley on the See also:

CANADIAN

Canadian See also:

side of Lake Erie. There is a beautiful public See also:

park of 20 acres on the lake shore. Conneautis situated in a See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain-growing and dairying region; it has an excellent See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour to and from which See also:

COAL

coal and ore are shipped, and is a sub-port of entry. The city has planing See also:

mills, See also:

FLOUR

flour mills, See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick See also:

WORKS

works, tanneries, canneries and manufactories of electric and See also:

GAS

gas See also:

FIXTURES (Lat. figere, to fix)

fixtures, electric lamps and See also:

TUNGSTEN [symbol W, atomic weight 184.o (0=16)]

tungsten gas lamps. The See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates its electric-See also:

LIGHTING

lighting plant. In 1796 survcyors for the See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut See also:

LAND

Land Co. built a See also:

LOG (a word of uncertain etymological origin,possibly onomatopoeic; the New English Dictionary rejects the derivation from Norwegian lag, a fallen tree)

log See also:

STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire, Late Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions, supply, from the late use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

store-See also:

house here, but the permanent See also:

settlement See also:

DATES

dates from 1798; in 1832 Conneaut was incorporated, and it became a city in 1898.

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