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Encyclopedia Britannica



ALFRED

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 585 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALFRED , a
village
  in the township of Alfred, Allegany county, New
York
 , U.S.A., about 75 M. S.W. of Buffalo. Pop. of the township, including the
village
  (1900), 1615; (1910 U. S. census) 1590. Pop. of the village (I goo) 756; (1910 U. S. census) 759. The township is served, at Alfred station, by the Erie railway. The village, which. is connected by stage with the station, is situated at the junction of two valleys and commands delightful views of mountain scenery. On the west slope of Pine Hill is Alfred University (co-educational), which embraces
a college (non-sectarian), an academy (non-sectarian) and a theological seminary (Seventh-Day Baptist). Closely associated with it also, and under the management of the university trustees, is the New
York
  State School of Clay-Working and
Ceramics
  (igoo), one of the most efficient schools of the kind in the country. In 1908 the legislature of New York appropriated $8o,000 for the
establishment
  of a state school of agriculture in connexion with the university. The institution had its beginning in 1836 in a private school. This developed into an academy, which- in 1843 was incorporated as Alfred Academy and Teachers' Seminary; in 1857 the university was chartered under its present name. The principal industry of the village is the manufacture of roofing tiles. The township of Alfred lies within the territory purchased by Robert Morris in 1791. He sold it in the same year to a company
resident
  in London, England. Their agent sold most of it to settlers and, it is said, named the township, when it was organized in 18o6, in honour of Alfred the Great. The first settlement within its present limits was made in 1807. For several years most of the settlers were Seventh-Day Baptists, and in 1812 they organized a church here. The village of Alfred was chartered in 1887.
J. S. Minard, Allegany County and its People (Alfred, 1896).


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