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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 458 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHOENIXVILLE  , a

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borough of
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Chester
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county,
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Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Schuylkill
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river at the mouth of
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French
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Creek, about 28 M.
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north-
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west of
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Philadelphia . Pop . (189o), 8514; (1900), 9196, of whom 2221 were
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foreign-
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born and 278 were negroes; (1910
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census), 10,743 . It is served by the Pennsylvania (Schuylkill
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division) and the Philadelphia &
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Reading
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railways, and by electric railway to
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Spring
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City (pop. in 191o, 288o), 5 m. north-west of Phoenixville on the Schuylkill . Phoenixville is chiefly a manufacturing borough . Its blast-furnaces and
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iron
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mills were
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long among the largest in the
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country, and the manu-facture of
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steel is still the borough's predominant
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industry . Phoenixville was settled in 1732, and was incorporated in 1849 .

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