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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 458 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PHOENIXVILLE , 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 of See also:

Chester 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:

Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Schuylkill See also:

RIVER

river at the mouth of See also:

French See also:

Creek, about 28 M. See also:

north-See also:

west of See also:

PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia. Pop. (189o), 8514; (1900), 9196, of whom 2221 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and 278 were negroes; (1910 See also:

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

census), 10,743. It is served by the Pennsylvania (Schuylkill See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division) and the Philadelphia & See also:

READING

Reading See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by electric railway to See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

Spring See also:

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

City (pop. in 191o, 288o), 5 m. north-west of Phoenixville on the Schuylkill. Phoenixville is chiefly a manufacturing borough. Its blast-furnaces and See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron See also:

mills were See also:

long among the largest 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, and the manu-facture of See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel is still the borough's predominant 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. Phoenixville was settled in 1732, and was incorporated in 1849.

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