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ROCK HILL

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 434 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROCK See also:HILL , a See also:city of See also:York See also:county, See also:South Carolina, U.S.A., 84 m. by See also:rail N. of See also:Columbia. Pop. (189o) 2744; (1900) 5485 (1706 negroes); (191o) 7216. Rock Hill is served by two lines of the See also:Southern railway. It lies at an See also:elevation of about 67o ft. above the See also:sea. Among its buildings and institutions are the Federal See also:Government See also:Building, the City See also:Flail, the See also:Carnegie Library and the See also:Winthrop Normal and See also:Industrial See also:College (chartered in 1891 and opened in 1894), a See also:state institution for See also:white girls. See also:Cotton is the most important product of the surrounding See also:country. The See also:Catawba See also:river, 5 M. distant, furnishes See also:good See also:water-See also:power, and in a large power-plant See also:electricity is generated for the city's manufactories. Among the manufactures are cotton goods, cotton-See also:seed oil, See also:yarn, wagons and carriages, foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products; and there are cotton gins, See also:marble and See also:stone See also:works. The growth of the city has been almost entirely since the See also:Civil See also:War. Rock Hill was incorporated As a See also:village in 1870, and was chartered as a city in 1892.

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