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MEADVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Crawford county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on See also:French See also:Creek, 36 m. S. of See also:Erie. Pop. (1900), 10,291, of whom 912 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 173 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 12,780. It is served by the Erie, and the See also:Bessemer & See also:Lake Erie See also:railways. Meadville has three public parks, two See also:general hospitals and a public library, and is the seat of the Pennsylvania See also:College of See also:Music, of a commercial college, of the Meadville Theological School (1844, Unitarian), and of See also:Allegheny College (co-educational), which was opened in 1815, came under the general patronage of the Methodist Episcopal See also:Church in 1833, and in 1909 had 322 students (200 men and 122 See also:women). Meadville is the commercial centre of a See also:good agricultural region, which also abounds in oil and natural See also:gas. The Erie Railroad has extensive shops here, which in 1905 employed 46.7 % of the See also:total number of wage-earners, and there are various manufactures. The factory product in 1905 was valued at $2,074,600, being 24.4 % more than that of 1900. Meadville, the See also:oldest See also:settlement in N.W. Pennsylvania, was founded as a fortified See also:post by See also:David See also:Mead in 1793, laid out as a See also:town in 1795, incorporated as a See also:borough in 1823 and chartered as a city in 1866.

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