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STAUNTON , an independent city and the county-seat of Augusta county, Virginia, U.S.A., about 135 M. N.W. of Richmond. Pop. (r89o) 6975; (1900) 7289, including 1828 negroes and 149 foreign-born; (1910) 10,604. Staunton is served by the Chesapeake & Ohio
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corporation e.g. he buys the city's supplies and has general supervision over the city improvements.The first settlement in this vicinity was on Lewis Creek, about 2 M. east of the city, in 1731. A county court-house was built here in 1745, and the name Staunton, in honour of the wife of Sir William Gooch (then lieutenant- governor ), whose maiden name was Staunton, was used in 1748-1749, but Staunton was not incorporated as a town until 1761. It was chartered as a city in 1870, and then became a municipality independent of the county. The corporate limits of the city were extended in 1905 and, as its population thus became more than Io,000, Staunton was made a city of the first class.End of Article: STAUNTON If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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