PHOENIXVILLE  , 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 of See also:

• CHESTER
• CHESTER, EARLS OF

Chester 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, See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Schuylkill See also:

• RIVER

river at the mouth of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• CREEK
• CREEK (Mid. Eng. crike or creke, common to many N. European languages)

Creek, about 28 M. See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of See also:

• PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia . Pop . (189o), 8514; (1900), 9196, of whom 2221 were See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and 278 were negroes; (1910 See also:

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

census), 10,743 . It is served by the Pennsylvania (Schuylkill See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division) and the Philadelphia & See also:

• READING

Reading See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways, and by electric railway to See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

Spring See also:

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

City (pop. in 191o, 288o), 5 m. north-west of Phoenixville on the Schuylkill . Phoenixville is chiefly a manufacturing borough . Its blast-furnaces and See also:

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

iron See also:

• MILLS, JOHN (d. 1736)
• MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832– )

mills were See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long among the largest in the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and the manu-facture of See also:

• STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel is still the borough's predominant See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry . Phoenixville was settled in 1732, and was incorporated in 1849 .