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MILTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 492 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MILTON  , a

borough of Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Susquehanna
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river at the mouth of Lime-stone Run, about 66 m . N. of
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Harrisburg . Pop . (189o), 5317; (1900), 6175 (166
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foreign-born); (191o), 746o . It is served by the Pennsylvania, and the
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Philadelphia &
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Reading
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railways, and is connected with
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Lewisburg and Watsontown by an electric
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line . Milton has an attractive public park, is in an agricultural region, and has various manufactures . It was founded in 1792, and incorporated as a borough in 1817 . In 188o it was in
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great
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part destroyed by fire .

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