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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 476 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MILLVILLE , a See also:

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

city of See also:

Cumberland 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, New See also:

Jersey, U.S.A., on the See also:

Maurice See also:

RIVER

river, 40 M. S. by E. of See also:

PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia. Pop. (1890) 10,002; (1900) 10,583 (598 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1905, See also:

state See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 11,884; (1910) 12,451. It is served by the See also:

West Jersey & Seashore railway, by electric lines to Philadelphia, See also:

BRIDGETON

Bridgeton, See also:

VINELAND

Vineland and Fairton, and by schooners and small See also:

FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight boats. Peaches and small See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit are cultivated extensively in the surrounding 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. In the See also:

north See also:

PART

part of the city is a large public See also:

park, in which a beautiful See also:

lake 3 M. See also:

long and about r m. wide has been formed by damming the river. See also:

Glass and moulding See also:

sand is found in the vicinity, and the city is engaged principally in the manufacture of glass (especially druggists' See also:

WARE

ware). The value of the city's factory products increased from $2,513,433 in 1900 to $3,719,417 in 1905, or 48%; and of the See also:

TOTAL

total value in 1905, $2,332,614, or 62'7%, was the value of the glass products. Millville was incorporated as a See also:

TOWN

town in 18or, was chartered as a city in 1866, and its See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter was revised in 1877.

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