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Vitry-le-François

(Encyclopedia) Vitry-le-FrançoisVitry-le-Françoisvētrēˈ-lə-fräNswäˈ [key], town (1990 pop. 17,483), Marne dept., NE France, on the Marne River. Textiles and earthenware are the chief manufactures.…

Wilton, town, United States

(Encyclopedia) Wilton, town (1990 pop. 15,989), Fairfield co., SW Conn.; settled c.1701, inc. 1802. It is a residential town with electronic research facilities and some agriculture.

Indian Head

(Encyclopedia) Indian Head, town, SE Sask., Canada, E of Regina. In a wheat-growing region, it has flour mills and grain elevators. A dominion…

Schefferville

(Encyclopedia) Schefferville, town (1991 pop. 303), E central Que., Canada, on the Labrador border. With the closure of the Iron Ore Co. in 1983, the town shut down almost completely.

Coalville

(Encyclopedia) Coalville, town, Leicestershire, central England. Coalville is a modern town in the center of the Leicestershire coal field. Mining is…

Trumbull

(Encyclopedia) Trumbull, town (1990 pop. 32,016), Fairfield co., SW Conn.; settled in the 1660s, inc. 1797. Largely residential, the town has some light industry. The NASDAQ's data center is there.

Swinton

(Encyclopedia) Swinton, town (1991 pop. 44,416), Salford metropolitan district, NW England, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area. The town has cotton mills and factories for pottery, chemicals…

Griffith

(Encyclopedia) Griffith, town (2020 pop. 16,024), Lake co., extreme NW Ind.; inc. 1904. It is primarily a residential town in the Chicago metropolitan…

City of Cape Town

(Encyclopedia) City of Cape Town, metropolitan municipality, South Africa: see Cape Town, City of.

Roosevelt, town, United States

(Encyclopedia) Roosevelt, uninc. residential town (1990 pop. 15,030), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on Long Island. A large retail business exists in Roosevelt, and the town has become the county's busiest…