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SAYRE , 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:Bradford See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the See also:North See also:Branch of the Susquehanna See also:river, about 95 M. (by See also:rail) N.N.W. of Wilkes-See also:Barre, and just S. of the New See also:York See also:state boundary. Pop. (1900) 5243 (337 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 6426. Sayre is served by the See also:main See also:line and by a branch of the Lehigh Valley railway, and is connected by electric railway with See also:Waverly, New York, and with the adjacent borough of See also:Athens, Pennsylvania (pop. in 1910, 3796), which manufactures See also:furniture, carriages and wagons. Sayre, Athens, See also:South Waverly and Waverly See also:form virtually one See also:industrial community. The borough of Sayre is the seat of the See also:Robert See also:Packer See also:Hospital (1885) and has two parks. It is the See also:trade centre of an agricultural and dairying region, and has See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal See also:works and other factories; but its industrial importance is due primarily to the See also:locomotive and See also:car shops of the Lehigh Valley railway. It was named in See also:honour of Robert See also:Heysham Sayre (1824–1907), See also:long See also:chief-engineer of this railway. Sayre was settled in 188.o and was incorporated as a borough in 1891.
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