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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city and the See also:county-seat of Cortland county, New See also:York, U.S.A., in the central See also:part of the See also:state, on Tioughnioga See also:river, at the junction of its E. and W. branches. Pop. (1890) 8590; (1900) 9014, of whom 682 were See also:foreign See also:born; (1905) 11,272; (1910) 11,504. It is served by the See also:Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and the Lehigh Valley See also:railways. The See also:Franklin See also:Hatch library and a state normal and training school (opened in 1869) are in Cortland. The city has important manufactories of See also:wire, and wire-See also:cloth and netting (one of the largest in See also:America), cabs, carriages and waggons, See also:iron and See also:steel, See also:wall-See also:paper, See also:dairy supplies, See also:corundum wheels, and clothing. The value of the city's factory products increased from $3,063,828 in 1900 to $4,574,191 in 1905 or 49.3%. The See also:town of Cortlandville, which formed a part of the See also:Phelps and Gorham See also:Purchase, was first settled in 1792, and until 1829 was a part of the town of See also:Homer; from which in the latter See also:year it was separated, and made the county-seat. In 1900 the See also:village of Cortland in the town of Cortlandville was chartered as a city. See H. C. See also:Goodwin, Cortland County and the Border See also:Wars of New York (New York, 1859).

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