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OWEGO

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 391 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
OWEGO , a
village
  and the county-seat of Tioga county, New
York
 , U.S.A., on the Owego Creek and on the N. side of the Susquehanna river, 21 M. W. of Binghamton. Pop. (19zo, U.S. census) 4633: It is served by the Erie, the Lehigh Valley and the
Delaware
 , Lackawanna & Western railways; a branch of the last connects with Ithaca, N.Y. Owego occupies the site of an Indian (probably
Tuscarora
 )
village
  named " Ah-wa-ga," which was destroyed by General James Clinton in 1779. The name, of which " Owego " is a corruption, is said to mean " where the valley widens." A white
settlement
  and trading post were set up here in 1785, and the village of Owego was incorporated in 1827.


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