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ERIE , a See also:city, a See also:port of entry, and the See also:county-seat of Erie county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on See also:Lake Erie, 148 m. by See also:rail N. of See also:Pittsburg and near the N.W. corner of the See also:state. Pop.
(1890) 40,634; (1900) 52,733, of whom 11,957 were See also:foreign-See also:born, including 5226 from See also:Germany and 1468 from See also:Ireland, and 26,797
were of foreign parentage (both parents foreign-born), including 13,316 of See also:German parentage and 4203 of Irish parentage; (1910 See also:census) 66,525. Erie is served by the New See also:York, See also:Chicago & St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, the Lake See also:Shore & See also:Michigan See also:Southern, the Erie & Pittsburg (Pennsylvania See also:Company), the See also:Philadelphia & Erie (Pennsylvania railway), and the See also:Bessemer & Lake Erie See also:railways, and by steamboat lines to many important lake ports. The city extends over an See also:area of about 7 sq. m., which for the most See also:part is quite level and is from 50 to 175 ft. above the lake. Erie has a See also:fine See also:harbour about 4 M. in length, more than 1 m. in width, and with an See also:average See also:depth of about 20 ft.; it is nearly enclosed by Presque Isle, a See also:long narrow See also:strip of See also:land of about 3000 acres from 300 ft. to 1 m. in width, and the See also:national See also:government has protected its entrance and deepened its channel by constructing two long breakwaters. Most of the streets of the city are 6o ft. wide—a few are roo ft.—and nearly all intersect at right angles; they are paved with See also:brick and See also:asphalt, and many in the residential quarters are shaded with fine elms and
maples. The city has four parks, in one of which is a soldiers' and sailors' See also:monument of See also:granite and See also:bronze, and not far away, along the shore of lake and See also:bay, are several attractive summer resorts. Among Erie's more prominent buildings are the See also:United States government See also:building, the city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, the public library, and the county See also:court See also:house. The city's charitable institutions consist of two See also:general hospitals, each of which has a training school for nurses; a municipal See also:hospital, an See also:orphan See also:asylum, a See also:home for the friendless, two old folks' homes, and a See also:bureau of charities; here, also, on a See also:bluff, within a large enclosure and overlooking both lake and city, is the state soldiers' and sailors' home, and near by is a monument erected to the memory of General See also:Anthony See also:Wayne, who died here on the 15th of See also:December 1796.
Erie is the commercial centre of a large and See also:rich See also:grape-growing and agricultural See also:district, has an extensive See also:trade with the lake ports and by rail (chiefly in See also:coal, See also:iron ore, See also:lumber and See also:grain), and is an important manufacturing centre, among its products being iron, engines, boilers, See also:brass castings, stoves, See also:car heaters, See also:flour, See also:malt liquors, lumber, planing See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill products, See also:cooperage products, See also:paper and See also:wood pulp, cigars and other See also:tobacco goods, See also:gas meters, See also:rubber goods, See also:pipe See also:organs, pianos and chemicals. In 1905 the city's factory products were valued at $19,911,567, the value of foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products being $6,723,8I9, of flour and grist-mill products $1,444,450, and of malt liquors $882,493. The See also:municipality owns and operates its See also:water-See also:works.
On the site of Erie the See also:French erected Fort Presque Isle in 1753, and about it founded a See also:village of a few See also:hundred inhabitants. See also:George See also:Washington, on behalf of the See also:governor of See also:Virginia, came in the same See also:year to Fort Le Bceuf (on the site of the See also:present See also:Waterford), 20 m. 'distant, to protest against the French fortifying this See also:section of See also:country. The protest, however, was unheeded. The village was abandoned in or before 1758, owing probably to an epidemic of smallpox, and the fort was abandoned in 1759. It was occupied by the See also:British in 176o, but on the 22nd of See also:June 1763 this was one of the several forts captured by the See also:Indians during the See also:Conspiracy of See also:Pontiac. In 1764 the British regained nominal See also:control and retained it until 1785, when it passed into the See also:possession of the United States. The See also:place was laid out as a See also:town in 1795; in 1800 it became the county-seat of the newly-erected county of Erie; it was incorporated as a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in 18o5, the See also:charter of that year being revised in 1833; and in 1851 it was incorporated as a city. At Erie were built within less than six months most of the vessels with which See also:Commodore See also:Oliver H. See also:Perry won his See also:naval victory over the British off Put-in-Bay on the loth of See also:September 1813.
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