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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TOWN

town and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Union county, See also:

South Carolina, U.S.A., about 66 m. N.W. of See also:

COLUMBIA

Columbia. Pop. (1900) 5400, of whom 1701 were negroes; (U.S. See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census 1910) 5623. Union is served by the See also:

SOUTHERN

Southern and the Union & Glenn Springs See also:

RAILWAYS

railways; the latter connects at See also:

PRIDE, THOMAS (d. 1658)

Pride, 16 m. distant, with the Seaboard See also:

Air See also:

LINE

Line. The See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city is situated in the See also:

PIEDMONT (Ital. Piemonte; Low Lat. Pedemons and Pedemontium)

Piedmont region near the See also:

FOOT

foot of the See also:

BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

Blue See also:

Ridge Mountains. It is the seat of See also:

Clifford See also:

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

Seminary for See also:

Young See also:

WOMEN

Women (opened, 1881; chartered, 1883), and has a See also:

Carnegie library. Union is in a See also:

rich See also:

cotton-growing, farming and See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit-growing region, and deposits of See also:

gold, magnetic See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron ore, See also:

MARBLE (from Lat. marmor, Gr. pApµapos, shining stone)

marble and See also:

GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite are found. The town has several large cotton See also:

mills and a large See also:

KNITTING (from O.E. cnyttan, to knit; cf. Ger. Knutten; the root is seen in " knot ")

knitting See also:

mill. Union was settled about 1755 and was incorporated as a town in 1872.

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