|
SHARON , 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:Mercer See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Shenango See also:river, about 70 M. by See also:rail N.N.W. of See also:Pittsburg. Pop. (1900) 8916, of whom 18o5 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 113 were negroes; (1910 U.S. See also:census) 15,270. Sharon is served by the See also:Erie, the See also:Lake See also:Shore & See also:Michigan See also:Southern, and the Pennsylvania (Erie and Pittsburg See also:division) See also:railways. Sharon has an excellent public school See also:system, and the F. H. Buhl See also:Club (1903) is a social and educational institution, named in See also:honour of its founder, an See also:iron manufacturer of the borough. The borough has blast furnaces and See also:rolling-See also:mills; and iron and See also:steel products, See also:tin-See also:plate and terne-plate are its See also:principal manufactures. The See also:total value of factory products in 1905 was $4,776,914, being 26'9% more than in 1900. Sharon and See also:South Sharon (pop. by U.S. census in 1910, 10,190), which was separately incorporated as a borough in 1901, See also:form what is virtually a single See also:industrial community. Sharon was first settled in 1795, but was only a small See also:village when a See also:movement for developing the See also:coal-mines in the vicinity was begun in 1836. It was incorporated as a borough in 1841.
End of Article: SHARON
Additional information and Comments
There are no comments yet for this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.
|
del.icio.us it!