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NANTICOKE , a See also:

BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough of Luzerne See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the See also:

North See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

Branch of the Susquehanna See also:

RIVER

river, opposite See also:

West Nanticoke, and 8 m. S.W. of Wilkes-See also:

Barre. Pop. (1880), 3884; (1890), 10,044; (1900), 12,116, of whom 5055 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1910 See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 18,877. It is served by the Pennsylvania, the See also:

DELAWARE

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and the Central of New See also:

Jersey See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by an interurban electric See also:

LINE

line. Nanticoke is situated in the See also:

ANTHRACITE (Gr. avOpaE, coal)

anthracite See also:

COAL

coal region, is surrounded by mines, and its See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries consist chiefly in See also:

MINING

mining and See also:

SHIPPING

shipping coal; it also has various manufactures, and in 1905 the factory product was valued at $358,091. Nanticoke was laid out in 1793, and was incorporated as a borough in 1874. The name is that of an Algonquian tribe of See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians, conspicuous for their dark complexion, who originally lived in See also:

MARYLAND

Maryland, were conquered by the See also:

IROQUOIS

Iroquois in 1678 and subsequently scattered; the See also:

main See also:

BODY

body removed to lands along the eastern branch of the Susquehanna, where some of them became merged with the Iroquois, and others removed to the See also:

OHIO

Ohio and became merged with the Delaware.

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