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Encyclopedia Britannica



MEADVILLE

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 946 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MEADVILLE , a city and the county-seat of Crawford county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., on French Creek, 36 m. S. of
Erie
 . Pop. (1900), 10,291, of whom 912 were foreign-born and 173 were negroes; (1910
census
 ) 12,780. It is served by the
Erie
 , and the Bessemer & Lake Erie railways. Meadville has three public parks, two general hospitals and a public library, and is the seat of the
Pennsylvania
  College of Music, of a commercial college, of the Meadville Theological School (1844, Unitarian), and of Allegheny College (co-educational), which was opened in 1815, came under the general patronage of the Methodist Episcopal
Church
  in 1833, and in 1909 had 322 students (200 men and 122 women). Meadville is the commercial centre of a good agricultural region, which also abounds in oil and natural gas. The Erie Railroad has extensive shops here, which in 1905 employed 46.7 % of the
total
  number of wage-earners, and there are various manufactures. The factory product in 1905 was
valued at $2,074,600, being 24.4 % more than that of 1900.
Meadville, the oldest
settlement
  in N.W. Pennsylvania, was
founded as a fortified post by
David
 
Mead
  in 1793, laid out as a town in 1795, incorporated as a
borough
  in 1823 and chartered as a city in 1866.


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