Batavia, a post-village of Western New York, on Tonawanda Creek, 36 miles NE. of Buffalo by rail. It has several mills, and manufactures of sashes and blinds, ploughs, and farming-implements, and is the seat of the state institution for the blind (1868). Pop. (1880) 4845; (1890) 7200.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 791
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