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WILLIAMSPORT , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Lycoming county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the See also:north See also:bank of the See also:west See also:branch of the Susquehanna See also:river, about 70 M. N. by W. of See also:Harrisburg. Pop. (189o) 27,132; (1900) 28,757, of whom 1144 were negroes and 2228 were See also:foreign-See also:born, including 1089 Germans; (1910 See also:census), 31,86o. See also:Area, about 7 sq. m. Williamsport is served by the New See also:York Central & See also:Hudson River, the Pennsylvania, the Susquehanna & New York, and the See also:Philadelphia & See also:Reading See also:railways, and by electric lines connecting with the neighbouring towns of Montoursville (pop. in 1900, 1665), See also:South Williamsport (pop. in 'goo, 3328), on the S. bank of the river, and Du Boistown (pop. in 1900, 65o). The city has an attractive site, on a high See also:plain, nearly surrounded by hills. It has five parks, See also:Brandon (44 acres) within the city limits, and Vallamont, Starr See also:Island, Sylvan Dell and Nippono in its suburbs. Williamsport is the seat of Williamsport See also:Dickinson See also:Seminary (Methodist Episcopal, co-educational, 1848), a secondary school. Among the See also:principal buildings are the county See also:court See also:house, the city 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, the See also:United States See also:Government See also:building, the Scottish Rite See also:Cathedral, the Masonic See also:Temple, a Y.M.C.A. building, and the See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James V. See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown Memorial Library (1907). In the city are a Boys' See also:Industrial See also:Home (1898), a Girls' Training School (1895), a See also:Florence Crittenton Home (1895), a Home for Aged Coloured See also:Women (1898), a Home for the Friendless (1872), and Williamsport See also:Hospital (1873). There are practically no See also:tenement houses. The value of factory products in 1905 was $11,738,473, 20.7% more than in 1900. Williamsport has the largest See also:lumber See also:market in Pennsylvania; lumber was for See also:forty years the most important of its manufactures, and Williamsport was styled the " sawdust city." The decreasing importance of the See also:industry is due to the virtual exhaustion of See also:standing See also:timber in the neighbourhood. Lumber and timber products were valued at $1,310,368 in 1905, and lumber and planing See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill products at $579,667. Among other manufactures are See also:silk and silk goods, valued at $1,191,273 in 1905; foundry and See also:machine See also:shop products, $1,164,737; See also:rubber and See also:leather boots and shoes, See also:furniture, &c. The city has a large See also:trade with the surrounding See also:country. The See also:water See also:supply is derived from See also:mountain streams S. of the city. Lycoming county was erected in 1795, in which See also:year Williamsport was founded and became the county-seat, after a See also:bitter contest with Jaysburg, which was then a See also:village of only some See also:half a dozen houses and which subsequently ceased to exist. Williamsport was incorporated as 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 in 18o6, and was chartered as a city in 1866.
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