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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 833 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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EASTHAMPTON , a township of See also:

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

Hampshire 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:

Mass., U.S.A., in the See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut Valley. Pop. (1900) 5603, of whom 1731 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1905) 68o8; (1910) 8524. It is served by the See also:

Boston & See also:

Maine, and the New See also:

York, New Haven & See also:

HARTFORD

Hartford See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by interurban electric railways. The township is generally level, and is surrounded by high hills. In Easthampton are a See also:

FREE

free public library and Williston See also:

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

Seminary; the latter, one of the See also:

OLDEST

oldest and largest preparatory See also:

SCHOOLS

schools in New See also:

England, was founded in 1841 by the gifts' of See also:

SAMUEL

Samuel Williston (1795—1874) and Emily See also:

GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846— )

Graves Williston (1797—1885). Mr and Mrs Williston built up the 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 of covering buttons with See also:

CLOTH

cloth, at first doing the See also:

WORK

work by See also:

hand, then (1827) experimenting with machinery, and in 1848 See also:

BUILDING

building a factory for making and covering buttons. As the See also:

SOIL

soil was fertile and well watered, the township had been agricultural up to this See also:

time. It is now chiefly devoted to manufacturing. Among its products are See also:

cotton goods, especially mercerised goods, for the manufacture of which it has one of the largest See also:

PLANTS

plants 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; See also:

RUBBER, INDIARUBBER

rubber, See also:

THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)

thread, elastic fabrics, suspenders and buttons. Parts of See also:

Northampton and See also:

Southampton were incorporated as the " See also:

DISTRICT

district " of Easthampton in 1785; it became a township in 1809, and in 1841 and 185o annexed parts of Southampton.

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