SOUTHBRIDGE

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SOUTHBRIDGE , a township of Worcester county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the Quinabaug river (which here falls 165 ft.), about 20 M. S.S.W. of Worcester. Pop. (1900), 10,025, of whom 3468 were foreign-born; (1910 census), 12,592. Area, about 20 sq. m. The township 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 & Hartford railway, and by inter-urban (electric) lines to Worcester and

Springfield

SPRINGFIELD

. The Southbridge public library (1870) contained 22,000 volumes in 1910. Optical goods,

cotton

, woollen and

goods, cutlery and shuttles are the principal manufactures; in 1905 the value of the total factory product was $4,202,8J3. The factory of the American Optical Company here is probably the largest of its kind in the world.
In 18oi a poll parish, named the Second Religious Society of Charlton, and popularly called Honest Town, was formed from the west part of Dudley, the south-west part of Charlton and the south-

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

part of Sturbridge; and in 1816 this parish became the township of Southbridge.
Sec the Leaflets published (1901 sqq.) by the Quinabaug Historical Society of Southbridge.

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