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TOWANDA

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 109 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOWANDA  , a

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borough and the
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county-seat of
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Bradford county,
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Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the
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west
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bank of the Susquehanna
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river, about 50 M . N.W. of Wilkes-
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Barre . Pop . (189o), 4169; (5900), 4663 (322
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foreign-
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born); (191o) 4281 . Towanda is served by the Lehigh Valley and the Susquehanna & New
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York
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railways . It is situated about 730 ft. above the
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sea, and is surrounded by high hills . Towanda contains the museum of the Bradford County
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Historical Society . The borough is in a farming, dairying and stock-raising region, and has various manufactures . The first
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settlement was made by
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William Means in 1786, the
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village was laid out in 1812, became the county-seat in the same
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year, was variously known for some years as Meansville, Overton,
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Williamson,
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Monmouth and Towanda, and in 1828 was incorporated as the borough of Towanda .

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