North Adams
a city in Berkshire the Boston and Maine and the Boston co., Mass.; on the Hoosac river, and and Albany railroads; 20 miles N. E. of Pittsfield. It comprises the villages Blackington of Greylock, Braytonville, , Houghand Beaver. Here are the A. J. Adams AJ ton Public Library, North Adams Hos- Library, high school, North lights, elecpital, waterworks, electric and savtric railroads, several National daily and ings banks, and several manuweekly newspapers. The chief , lumber factures are tanned leather , , boots and iron castings, machinery print shoes, and cotton, woolen, and shoes, and cotton E. terminus of by is the 22,019; the Hoosac tunnel. Pop. (1910) (1920) 22,282.
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North America
. See America
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North Andover
a town of Massachusetts in Essex co., 28 miles N. of river and Boston. It is on the Merrimac on the Boston and Maine railroad. It is an attractive residential community and is also a manufacturing center of importance. There are several large woolen mills and manufactories of woolen-mill machinery. Pop. (1910) 5,529; (1920) 6,265.
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North Attleboro
a town in Bristol co., Mass.; on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 30 miles S. W. of Boston. It comprises the villages of Adamsdale, Falls Village, Robinsonville, and Oldtown. Here are the Richards Memorial Library, Holmes Memorial Building, Elks' Home, high school, street railroad, electric lights, and a National bank. It has extensive manufactories of cotton yarn, braid, silverware, and jewelry. Pop. (1910) 9,562; (1920) 9,238.
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North Berwick
a fashionable watering-place of Haddingtonshire, Scotland; at the entrance to the Firth of Forth, 23 miles E. N. E. of Edinburgh. Behind it rises conical North Berwick Law (612 feet). Tantallon Castle 3 miles E., fronting the Bass Rock is a magnificent ruin, finely described in Scott's "Marmion." A stronghold of the Douglases, it resisted James V. in 1528, but in 1639 was "dung down" by the Covenanters. Robert III. made North Berwick a royal burgh.
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North Braddock
a borough of Pennsylvania in Allegheny co., 10 miles S. E. of Pittsburgh. It is on the Pennsylvania railroad. It is an important manufacturing community, the chief industry being the manufacturing of steel rails. It is also an attractive residential town. Pop. (1910) 11,824; (1920) 14,928.
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North Britain
a name often given to Scotland, it forming the extreme N. part of the island of Britain.
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North Cape
the extreme N. point in Europe in lat. 71° 10' N. It is not, however, on the continent, but on the island of Magerö. The extreme N. point on the continent is Cape Nordkyn (lat. 71° 6' N.), 6 miles farther S. than the North Cape, and some 45 miles to the E. of it.
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North Carolina
UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational no non-sectarian institution in Chapel Hill, N. C., founded in 1795; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 105; students, 1,316; volumes in the library, 85,- 000; grounds and buildings valued at $290,000; benefactions, $1,000; income, $325,427; president, H. W. Chase, Ph. D.
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North Plainfield
a borough of New Jersey, in Somerset co. It is on the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Its industries include fruit canneries, a woodworking factory, a telescope factory, etc. In the neighborhood are important stone quarries. It is the seat of Mount St. Mary's College and Herbert's Hall for Exceptional Children. 6,117; (1920) 6,916.
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North Pole
. See Arctic Regions ; Peary 2026 Editor's Note: This entry was written into the middle of a scandal: Cook's and Peary's rival polar claims (1908–09) were both later doubted — modern polar historians credit neither with certainty. See the North Pole controversy . (Ed: BR 2026-06-10)
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North Providence
a town of Rhode Island, the county-seat of Providence co., 5 miles from Providence on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. It has important manufactories of woolen goods. ds. It contains a public library. Pop. (1910) 5,407; (1920) 7,697,
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North Star
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North Star
the star a of the constellation Ursa Minor. It is close to the true pole, never sets, and is therefore of Pop. (1910) great importance to navigators in the Northern Hemisphere.
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North Star
ORDER OF, a Swedish order of knighthood, established in 1748 mainly as a recognition of important scientific services.
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North Tarrytown
a village in New York in Westchester co., 26 miles N. of New York City on the Hudson river and on the New York Central railroad. It has important manufactories of automobiles and other products. The town is an attractive residential community. Pop. (1910) 5,421; (1920) 5,927.
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North Tonawanda
a city of New York in Niagara co., 5 miles N. of Buffalo. It is situ situated on the Niagara river, Erie canal, and the Erie, the Wabash, the West Shore, the Lehigh Valley, and the New York Central railroads. It has important industrial interests, chiefly of lumber and iron. There are manufactories also of steam piping, steam radiators, and motor boats. There is a library and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 11,955; (1920) 15,482.
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North Yakima
now Yakima, a city of Washington, county-seat of Yakima co. It is 157 miles S. E. of Seattle on the Northern Pacific, the Oregon- Washington Railroad Navigation Company, and the Yakima Valley Traction railroads. It is the center of a productive fruit region and also important livestock and dairying interests. It contains a hospital, a library and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 14,082; (1920) 18,539.
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Northallerton
the capital of the England, 30 North Riding of Yorkshire, a fine miles N. N. W. of York. It has cruciform church, Norman to Perpena Roman dicular in style; and sites of of the bishcamp and a Norman castle Hill, 3 ops of Durham. At Standard Aug. 22, 1138 miles N., was fought, on , Standard, in the great battle of the routed which Archbishop Thurstan David I. of Scotland, and which got its St. Peter, name from the banners of hung out John of Beverly, and Wilfrid, from a car in the English host. Pop. about 5,000. NORTH AMERICA. See AMERICA.
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Northampton
a borough of Penn- It is on sylvania, in Northampton co. Central of New Jersey the and the Lehigh Valley railroads. Pop. (1910) 8,729; (19 (1920) 9,349.
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Northampton (City and countyseat)
a city and countyseat of Hampshire co., Mass.; on the Connecticut river, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, and the Boston and Maine railroads; 17 miles comprises the N. W. of Springfield. It Farms, Mount Tom, villages of West , Leeds, Flor- Smith's Ferry, Loudville are the Burnence, and Bay State. Here schools, Clarke Instiham and Capen by John tute for Deaf Mutes (endowed Clarke with $3,000,000), SMITH COL- LEGE (q. v.), the State Lunatic Asylum, ' Home Dickinson Hospital, Old Ladies , Sailors' Memorial the Soldiers' and Hall, the First Congregational Church, Jonathan Edwards was pastor, of which , and libraries, People's 's Institute, clubs Hillyer Art Gallery. The city has the waterworks, electric street railroads, lights, a number of National electric and weekly and savings banks, and daily newspapers. The manufactures include caskets, shovels, hoes, furniture, paper, , wire, baskets brushes, pocket-books , buttons, silk bicycles, sewing machines, cutlery, goods, oil stoves, sewing silk, Pop. goods, etc. cotton and woolen (1910) 19,431; (1920) 21,951.
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