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Encyclopedia Britannica



SAYRE

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 277 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SAYRE , a borough of Bradford county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., on the North Branch of the Susquehanna river, about 95 M. (by rail) N.N.W. of Wilkes-
Barre
 , and just S. of the New
York
  state boundary. Pop. (1900) 5243 (337 foreign-born); (1910) 6426. Sayre is served by the main line and by a branch of the Lehigh Valley railway, and is connected by electric railway with Waverly, New
York
 , and with the adjacent borough of Athens,
Pennsylvania
  (pop. in 1910, 3796), which manufactures furniture, carriages and wagons. Sayre, Athens,
South
  Waverly and Waverly form virtually one industrial community. The borough of Sayre is the seat of the Robert Packer
Hospital
 
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(1885) and has two parks. It is the trade centre of an agricultural and dairying region, and has metal works and other factories; but its industrial importance is due primarily to the locomotive and car shops of the Lehigh Valley railway. It was named in honour of Robert Heysham Sayre (18241907), long
chief
 -engineer of this railway. Sayre was settled in 188.o and was incorporated as a borough in 1891.


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