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MORGANTOWN

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 835 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MORGANTOWN , a city and the county-seat of Monongalia county, West Virginia, U.S.A., on the Monongahela river, about 50 M. S.E. of Wheeling. Pop. (189o), Io1; (Igo0), 1895; (1910 census), g15o. The city is served by the
Baltimore
  &
Ohio
  and the Morgantown & Kingwood railways, and by several steamboat lines, the Monongahela being navigable to Fairmont, about 25 M. above Morgantown. Morgantown is the seat of the West Virginia University (co-educational), formed from the Monongalia
Academy
  (incorporated, 1814) and the Woodburn Female
Seminary
  (incorporated, 1858), and chartered in 1867 as the Agricultural College of West Virginia; in 1868 the present name was adopted. In 1908 the university had 8o instructors and 1534 students. Coal, glass-sand and limestone are found in- the vicinity of Morgantown. The first
settlement
  here was made about 1768 by the
brothers
 
David
  and Zackwill
Morgan
 , and was named in honour of the latter. It was incorporated as
Morgan
 's Town in 1785; and in 1905 a city charter was granted to it after the annexation of Greenmont (pop. 1900, 349),
Seneca
  (pop. 1900, 723), and
South
  Morgantown
(pop. 1900, 405).


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