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STAUNTON , an See also:independent See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Augusta county, See also:Virginia, U.S.A., about 135 M. N.W. of See also:Richmond. Pop. (r89o) 6975; (1900) 7289, including 1828 negroes and 149 See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910) 10,604. Staunton is served by the Chesapeake & See also:Ohio and the See also:Baltimore & Ohio See also:railways. It lies between the See also:Alleghany Mountains and the See also:Blue See also:Ridge, on a See also:plateau about 1380 ft. above See also:sea-level, in a fertile farming See also:country with See also:good pasture on the hillsides. In Staunton are a county See also:court-See also:house, the Western See also:State See also:hospital for the insane (1828), the Virginia school for the See also:deaf and the See also:blind (1839), the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's Daughters' hospital (1895), Dunsmore business See also:college, Staunton military See also:academy, the See also:Mary See also:Baldwin See also:seminary, formerly Augusta See also:female seminary (founded in 1842) and See also:Stuart See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall (for girls), which was founded in 1843, was incorporated in 1845, and was reincorporated in 1907 under its See also:present name in See also:honour of Mrs J. E. B. Stuart, wife of the Confederate See also:cavalry See also:leader, who was its See also:principal in 1879-1898. One mile See also:east of Staunton is a U.S. See also:national military See also:cemetery with See also:graves of 753 See also:Union soldiers killed at See also:Port See also:Republic, See also:Cross Keys and See also:Piedmont; and See also:west of the city is a Confederate cemetery with a memorial See also:monument. The See also:municipality owns the waterworks, the electric-See also:lighting plant and the See also:opera house An interesting feature of the city See also:government is the employment of a business manager (elected annually by the city See also:council), whose duties are in See also:general similar to those of the business manager of a large See also:corporation— e.g. he See also:buys the city's supplies and has general supervision over the city improvements.
The first See also:settlement in this vicinity was on See also:Lewis See also:Creek, about 2 M. east of the city, in 1731. A county court-house was built here in 1745, and the name Staunton, in honour of the wife of See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Gooch (then See also:lieutenant-See also:governor), whose See also:maiden name was Staunton, was used in 1748-1749, but Staunton was not incorporated as a See also:town until 1761. It was chartered as a city in 1870, and then became a municipality independent of the county. The corporate limits of the city were extended in 1905 and, as its See also:population thus became more than Io,000, Staunton was made a city of the first class.
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