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| | NORTHER - LoveToKnow Article on NORTHER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | It is served by the Chicago Great-Western, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railways. |
 | | Named in honor of John W. North, who laid out Northfield and several other western towns, it was settled about 1851, incorporated as a village in 1868, and chartered as a city in 1875. |
 | | It is the seat of Norwich University, founded in 1819 as the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy at Norwich, Windsor county, Vermont, by Captain Alden Partridge (1785-1854). |
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