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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 499 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOUTHBRIDGE , a township of See also:

Worcester See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the Quinabaug See also:river (which here falls 165 ft.), about 20 M. S.S.W. of Worcester. Pop. (1900), 10,025, of whom 3468 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census), 12,592. See also:Area, about 20 sq. m. The township is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway, and by inter-See also:urban (electric) lines to Worcester and See also:Springfield. The Southbridge public library (1870) contained 22,000 volumes in 1910. See also:Optical goods, See also:cotton, woollen and See also:print goods, See also:cutlery and shuttles are the See also:principal manufactures; in 1905 the value of the See also:total factory product was $4,202,8J3. The factory of the See also:American Optical See also:Company here is probably the largest of its See also:kind in the See also:world. In 18oi a See also:poll See also:parish, named the Second Religious Society of Charlton, and popularly called Honest See also:Town, was formed from the See also:west See also:part of See also:Dudley, the See also:south-west part of Charlton and the south-See also:east part of Sturbridge; and in 1816 this parish became the township of Southbridge. Sec the Leaflets published (1901 sqq.) by the Quinabaug See also:Historical Society of Southbridge.

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