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Seymour

(Encyclopedia) Seymour. 1 Town (1990 pop. 14,288), New Haven co., SW Conn., on the Naugatuck River; settled c.1678, inc. 1850. The town's manufacturing industries decline since the mid-1900s, but…

Saint Cloud

(Encyclopedia) Saint Cloud, city (1990 pop. 48,812), seat of Stearns co. and also in Benton and Sherburne counties, central Minn., on the Mississippi River; inc. 1856. Agriculture (dairying, poultry…

Appleton

(Encyclopedia) Appleton, city (2020 pop. 75,644), seat of Outagamie co., E Wis., on the Fox River near its exit from the northern end of Lake Winnebago, in a dairying and stockraising…

Lock Haven

(Encyclopedia) Lock Haven, industrial city (1990 pop. 9,230), seat of Clinton co., N central Pa., on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River at the junction of Bald Eagle Creek, in an agricultural…

Sulphur, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) Sulphur, city (1990 pop. 20,125), Calcasieu parish, SW La.; inc. 1914. It is a trade center for an area producing natural gas, oil, and timber as well as sorghum, soybeans, cattle, and…

Pharr

(Encyclopedia) PharrPharrfär [key], city (1990 pop. 32,921), Hidalgo co., extreme S Tex.; inc. 1916. It is located in the irrigated region of the lower Rio Grande valley. Transportation equipment and…

South Hadley

(Encyclopedia) South Hadley, residential town (1990 pop. 16,685), Hampshire co., W Mass., on the Connecticut River near the Holyoke Range; settled 1684, inc. 1775. Its paper industry dates from the…

Aravena, Alejandro

(Encyclopedia) Aravena, Alejandro 1967–, Chilean architect, b. Santiago, grad. Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Chile, Santiago (1992). Inspired by public service as much as by aesthetic concerns, he has…

Böhm, Gottfried

(Encyclopedia) Böhm, Gottfried, 1920-2021, b. Offenbach-am-Main, Germany, Technical Univ. in Munich (1946). Böhm’s father, Dominkus Böhm , and…

Kirkintilloch

(Encyclopedia) KirkintillochKirkintillochkûrkĭntĭlˈŏkh [key], town (1991 pop. 33,024), East Dunbartonshire, W Scotland, on the Forth and Clyde Canal. An engineering center, the town has factories…