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PHILLIPSBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 408 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILLIPSBURG , a See also:

town of See also:Warren See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., on the See also:Delaware See also:river, opposite See also:Easton, See also:Pennsylvania, and about 51 M. N.N.W. of Trenton, N.J. Pop. (1900) 10,052, of whom 990 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 U.S. See also:census) 13,903. Served by the Central of New Jersey and other See also:railways, the town is situated in the river bottom and on a See also:bluff which commands beautiful views. The river is spanned here by several See also:bridges. The town has railway shops and various manufactures. In 19o5 the value of the factory products was $6,684,173 (45.8 % more than in 'goo). Phillipsburg was settled about 1750. It was only a straggling See also:village when the See also:Morris Banking and See also:Canal See also:Company was chartered in 1824, but its growth was accelerated by the canal (no longer used), by the See also:establishment in 1848 of an See also:iron See also:furnace, and by the completion of the Central Railroad of New Jersey to this point in 1852; the town was incorporated in 1861.

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