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STERLING - LoveToKnow Article on STERLING |
 | | Sterling is served by the Chicago and Northwestern and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railways, and by inter-urban electric railway to Dixon, 52 m. |
 | | Sterling was formed in 1839 by the consolidation of two towns, Harrisburg and Chatham, founded here in 1836 and 1837 respectively; it was chartered as a city in 1857. |
 | | The sterling was a coin, the silver penny, 240 of which went to the pound sterling of silver of 5760 grains, 925 fine, and described in a statute of Edward I., quoted in Du Cange, as Denarius Angliae qui vocatur Sterlingus. |
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