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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 436 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ROCKVILLE , a See also:

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

city of Tolland 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:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, U.S.A., in the N.E. See also:

PART

part of the See also:

state, on the Hockanum See also:

RIVER

river, about 15 M. N.E. of See also:

HARTFORD

Hartford. Pop. (189o) 7972; (19o0) 7287, of whom 2548 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born, many being Germans and Poles; (1910) 7977. It is served by the New See also:

York, New Haven & See also:

Hart-See also:

ford railway and by electric lines. It is in the township of See also:

Vernon (pop. in 189o, 88o8; in 191o, 9087; See also:

AREA

area, 19 sq. m.), which was separated from See also:

Bolton township in 1808, and contains the villages of Vernon, Vernon Centre, Dobsonville and Talcottville. In the city are the See also:

George See also:

Maxwell Memorial Library and the Sykes See also:

MANUAL

Manual Training School. The river, by a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of falls, makes a descent of 28o ft. here, and furnishes See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power for large manufacturing establishments. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal manufactures are woollen, See also:

SILK

silk and See also:

cotton goods, envelopes, See also:

sand silk See also:

fish-lines. In 1841 See also:

FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy cassimeres, probably the first manufactured in the See also:

UNITED

United States, were made here. At the Hockanum See also:

Mills (established 1809) worsted for men's clothing was first made (about 187o) in the United States. The first See also:

settlement here was made about 1726.

Rockville was chartered as a city in 1889.

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