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UNION

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 593 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
UNION , a town and the county-seat of Union county,
South
  Carolina, U.S.A., about 66 m. N.W. of Columbia. Pop. (1900) 5400, of whom 1701 were negroes; (U.S. census 1910) 5623. Union is served by the Southern and the Union & Glenn Springs railways; the latter connects at
Pride
 , 16 m. distant, with the Seaboard Air Line. The city is situated in the Piedmont region near the foot of the Blue
Ridge
  Mountains. It is the seat of Clifford
Seminary
  for
Young
  Women (opened, 1881; chartered, 1883), and has a
Carnegie
  library. Union is in a rich
cotton
 -growing, farming and fruit-growing region, and deposits of gold, magnetic iron ore, marble and granite are found. The town has several large
cotton
  mills and a large knitting mill. Union was settled about 1755 and was incorporated as a town in 1872.


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