Phoenixville, a town of Pennsylvania, on the Schuylkill River, 28 miles by rail NW. of Philadelphia. Here are the extensive works of the Phoenix Iron Company and the Phoenix Bridge Company, which together employ 2400 men. Other manufactures are cotton goods, stockings, shirts, needles, pottery, &c. Pop. (1890) 8514.
Phoenixville,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 139
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