ROCKVILLE

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ROCKVILLE , a city of Tolland county, Connecticut, U.S.A., in the N.E. part of the state, on the Hockanum river, about 15 M. N.E. of Hartford. Pop. (189o) 7972; (19o0) 7287, of whom 2548 were foreign-born, many being Germans and Poles; (1910) 7977. It is served by the New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, New Haven & Hart-ford railway and by electric lines. It is in the township of Vernon (pop. in 189o, 88o8; in 191o, 9087; area, 19 sq. m.), which was separated from Bolton township in 1808, and contains the villages of Vernon, Vernon Centre, Dobsonville and Talcottville. In the city are the George Maxwell Memorial Library and the Sykes

Manual

MANUAL

Training School. The river, by a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of falls, makes a descent of 28o ft. here, and furnishes power for large manufacturing establishments. The principal manufactures are woollen, silk and

cotton

goods, envelopes, sand silk fish-lines. In 1841 fancy cassimeres, probably the first manufactured in the United States, were made here. At the Hockanum Mills (established 1809) worsted for men's clothing was first made (about 187o) in the United States. The first

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

here was made about 1726. Rockville was chartered as a city in 1889.

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